The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

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Susan Schneider, Max Velmans
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 16, 2017 - Philosophy - 848 pages

Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

  • 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
 

Contents

List of Tables
Cover
Introduction
A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to
Scientific Questions
References
Philosophical Problems of Consciousness
References
Dualism Reductionism and Reflexive Monism
Naturalistic Dualism
References
Step 2
Antimaterialist Arguments and Influential
List of Illustrations
References
Rejecting Step 2

References
Animal Consciousness
Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness
Further Readings
Consciousness and the Complexity Argument
References
References
States of Consciousness
References
and Cognitive Variants of Consciousness
Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences
References
Altered States of Consciousness
References
Anomalous Experiences
References
Mindfulness
Altered States
The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness
References
References
Chapter 23
Further Readings
Representationalism about Consciousness
Further Readings
HigherOrder Theories of Consciousness
References
Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness
References
Emergentism
Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness
Reply
References
The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness
References
SelfConsciousness
References
References
References
Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness
Unconsciously?
Conscious and Unconscious Perception
Conscious and Unconscious Memory
Consciousness of Action
Methodologies for Identifying the Neural
References
Conscious Processing
References
Further Readings
Duplex Vision
Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury
References
Anesthesia and Consciousness
The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition
Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness
References
Descriptive Experience Sampling
References
References
Resources for Students

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About the author (2017)

Susan Schneider is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a faculty member in the technology and ethics group at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work is on the nature of the self and mind, which she examines through issues in philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence (A.I.), metaphysics, astrobiology, epistemology, and neuroscience. She is the author of The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011) and Science Fiction and Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), and was responsible for the volume's philosophical content.

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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