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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 0470674075
- ISBN-13:
- 9780470674079
- Pub. Date:
- 05/08/2017
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness / Edition 2
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Overview
- Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field
- Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more
- Covers a wide array of topics that include the origins and extent of consciousness, various consciousness experiences such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness
- Presents 54 peer-reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780470674079 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 05/08/2017 |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 848 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author
Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been involved in consciousness studies for over 40 years. He has over 100 publications on this topic including Understanding Consciousness (2000/2009) and Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (2017). He is a co-founder and former Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and was responsible for the volume's scientific content.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xIntroduction xix
Part I The Problems of Consciousness 1
1 A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness 3Chris D. Frith and Geraint Rees
2 Philosophical Problems of Consciousness 17Michael Tye
3 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 32David Chalmers
Part II The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness 43
4 Consciousness in Infants 45Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy
5 Animal Consciousness 63Colin Allen and Michael Trestman
6 Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness 77Thomas W. Polger
7 Machine Consciousness 93Igor Aleksander
8 Panpsychism 106Philip Goff
Part III Some Varieties of Conscious Experience 125
9 States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming 127J. Allan Hobson
10 Affective Consciousness 141Jaak Panksepp
11 Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences 157Richard P. Bentall
12 Altered States of Consciousness: Drug-Induced States 171David E. Presti
13 Anomalous Experiences 187Etzel Cardeña
14 Mindfulness 203Peter Malinowski
15 Altered States: Mysticism 217David Fontana
Part IV Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness 227
16 The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Predictions and Results 229Bernard J. Baars
17 The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Outline 243Giulio Tononi
18 The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness 257Jesse Prinz
19 Representationalism about Consciousness 272William Seager and David Bourget
20 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness 288Peter Carruthers
21 Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples 298Harald Atmanspacher
22 Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness 314Susan Schneider
23 Biological Naturalism 327John Searle
24 Emergentism 337Gerald Vision
25 Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism 349Max Velmans
26 Naturalistic Dualism 363David Chalmers
27 Physicalist Panpsychism 374Galen Strawson
Part V Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness 391
28 Anti-materialist Arguments and Influential Replies 393Joe Levine
29 Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument 404Torin Alter
30 Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness 415Brian P. Mclaughlin
31 Functionalism and Qualia 430Robert Van Gulick
32 The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness 445Jaegwon Kim
33 The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness 458Pete Mandik
34 Self-Consciousness 472José Luis Bermúdez
35 Philosophical Psychopathology and Self-Consciousness 484G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham
36 Coming Together: The Unity of Consciousness 500Barry Dainton
37 Consciousness and Intentionality 519George Graham, Terence Horgan, and John Tienson
Part VI Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness 537
Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness
38 Studying Consciousness Through Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, and the Attentional Blink 539Michael A. Cohen and Marvin M. Chun
39 Conscious and Unconscious Perception 551Sid Kouider and Nathan Faivre
40 Conscious and Unconscious Memory 562John F. Kihlstrom, Jennifer Dorfman, and Lillian Park
41 Consciousness of Action 576Marc Jeannerod
Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness 589
42 Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness 591Geraint Rees and Chris D. Frith
43 Conscious Processing: Unity in Time Rather Than in Space 607Wolf Singer
44 Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Some Ontological Considerations 621Giulio Tononi
45 Split-brain Cases 634Mary (Molly) Colvin, Nicole L. Marinsek, Michael B. Miller, and Michael S. Gazzaniga
46 Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action 648Melvyn A. Goodale
47 Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury 662Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, and Olivia Gosseries
48 Anesthesia and Consciousness 682John F. Kihlstrom and Randall C. Cork
49 The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition: First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 695Aaron Schurger
First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 711
50 Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness 713Shaun Gallagher
51 Neurophenomenology and the Micro-phenomenological Interview 726Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin
52 Descriptive Experience Sampling 740Russell T. Hurlburt
53 Experiential Neuroscience of Pain 754Donald D. Price
54 An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness 769Max Velmans
Resources for Students 785
Index 788