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- ISBN 9781041141228
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Consciousness is widely regarded as one of the final frontiers of the human intellectual journey. Despite efforts in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, many issues remain elusive and intractable. This book identifies ten problems, five “easy” and five “hard,” and navigates the challenging terrain of these issues.
The so-called easy problems are by no means straightforward; they are only relatively easy in the sense that current scientific methods can make steady progress on them. Topics covered in the first half of this book include attention, cognition, neural correlates, neural mechanisms, and perceptual perspectives. The so-called hard problems are those that cannot be readily tackled by current standard scientific methods. Those in the second half of the book include subjectivity, objectivity, reasons, persons, and freedom of the will. Each chapter deals with one topic and is coupled with one specific research question. In answering these questions, the author proposes several non-fundamental theories which are not intended to be definitive.
This book provides an intellectual roadmap for novices and experts alike and will stimulate further interdisciplinary research programmes in consciousness studies.
Tony Cheng is an Associate Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), an associate research fellow at Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning (RCMBL), and an associate editor of Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal. He primarily works on attention, memory, spatial senses, Molyneux’s question, and transcendental argument.
