Consciousness in contemporary science
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Consciousness in contemporary science
（Oxford science publications）
Clarendon Press, 1992, c1988
- : pbk
Available at 26 libraries
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"First published in paperback 1992 (with corrections)"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in consciousness, from a number of viewpoints. In this book, the place of consciousness in modern science is discussed by leading authorities from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, and neurology. They address several main issues: the theoretical status of different aspects of consciousness; the criteria for using the concept and for distinguishing instances of conscious and
non-conscious behaviour; the basis of consciousness in cognition and in functional brain organization; the relationship between different levels of theoretical discourse; disorders of consciousness, especially neurological; and the functions of consciousness. The book thus presents a wide-ranging survey of
current thinking on this important topic.
Table of Contents
- Anthony J. Marcel & E. Bisiach: A cautious welcome: an introduction and guide to the book
- Kathleen Wilkes: - , yishi, duh, um, and consciousness
- Daniel C. Dennett: Quining qualia
- Robert Van Gulick: Consciousness, intrinsic intentionality, and self-understanding machines
- Edoardo Bisiach: The (haunted) brain and consciousness
- Anthony J. Marcel: Phenomenal experience and functionalism
- Alan Allport: What concept of consciousness?
- Lawrence Weiskrantz: Some contributions of neuropsychology of vision and memory to the problem of consciousness
- Matthew Hugh Erdelyi: Hypermnesia and insight
- Michael S. Gazzaniga: Brain modularity: towards a philosophy of conscious experience
- Marcel Kinsbourne: Integrated field theory of consciousness
- Richard L. Gregory: Consciousness in science and philosophy: consciousness and con-science
- Patricia Smith Churchland: Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness
- Tim Shallice: Information-processing models of consciousness: possibilities and problems
- Carlo Umilta: The control and operations of consciousness
- Philip N. Johnson-Laird: A computational analysis of consciousness
- Keith Oatley: On changing one's mind: a possible function of conciousness
- Index.
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