Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness
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Anomalous Monism
assemblies
Author_Rex Welshon
Autoscopic Hallucination
Bold Activity
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causal
Causal Powers
character
Conscious Events
Conscious Properties
correlates
Emergent Causal Powers
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Higher Order Property
Higher Order Representationalism
Left VLPFC
Lower Order Property
microphysical
Microphysical Properties
Multiple Realizability Argument
neural
Neural Assemblies
Neural Correlates
Neural Properties
Neural Vehicles
Non-reductive Physicalists
Orbitofrontal Prefrontal Cortex
powers
properties
qualitative
Qualitative Character
Superior Temporal Cortex
Supervenience Argument
Tonic Alertness
Vehicle Externalism
Working Memory
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- ISBN 9781844651580
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of the past thirty years and presents an up to date assessment of the issues and debates. The reader is first introduced to the way that consciousness has been thought about in the history of philosophy and psychology. The author then presents an informal and largely non-technical account of the properties of consciousness that are thought to be the most paradigmatic and problematic. Recent scientific work on consciousness, from neurophysiological studies of the brain and evolutionary studies of the development of consciousness to computational theories of the mind are then examined and the philosophical problems that these accounts raise are systematically introduced. The final chapters of the book consider more practical matters by addressing self-deception, neuroses, the unconscious and notions of the self, before concluding with an assessment of the future for psychology and the philosophy of mind.
Rex Welshon is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
