States of Consciousness

In this sensible, simple-to-follow workbook, based on the acclaimedNo More Sleepless Nights program, one of the world's leadinginsomnia experts giv...

What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads,...

By definition zombies would be physically and behaviourally just like us, but not conscious. This currently very influential idea is a threat to al...

Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we normally need, and what happens if you don't get enough of it? Professor Jim Horne finds the answers to these...

The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that ...

Philosophical work on the mind flowed in two streams through the 20th century: phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The phenomenological traditio...

Our dreams fascinate us as individuals and as a society. What do surveys report people dream about? How about the dreams of the blind? The menta...

In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two respons...

What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This volume collects thirteen new papers on these topics: twe...

The idea of a disjunctive theory of visual experiences first found expression in J.M. Hinton's pioneering 1973 book Experiences. In the first monog...

Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experie...

This volume explores the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity as depicted in transnational twentieth- and twenty-first-...

Could a single human being ever have multiple conscious minds? Some human beings do. The corpus callosum is a large pathway connecting the two hemi...

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream. However...

What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen...

We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or ...

We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or ...

John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world. So your ability to think about objects you...

Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his c...

The capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past are two of the most fundamental and least understood aspects...

What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Campbell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to...

Can we learn without consciousness? When the eminent neuropsychologist, Lawrence Weiskrantz first coined the term 'blindsight' to describe a condit...

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for s...

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for s...

Reading Dreams contains seven new essays, based on new research, on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. The t...

What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity r...

The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked...

Phillip H. Wiebe provides a critical study of contemporary visions of Jesus. Based on accounts by thirty people, Wiebe discusses each vision in viv...

Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary...