The Blackwell Companion to ConsciousnessSusan Schneider, Max Velmans 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.
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Contents
A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness 3 | 3 |
Philosophical Problems of Consciousness 17 | 17 |
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | 32 |
Consciousness in Infants | 45 |
Animal Consciousness | 63 |
Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness | 77 |
Machine Consciousness | 93 |
Panpsychism | 106 |
Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness | 415 |
Functionalism and Qualia | 430 |
The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness | 445 |
The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness | 458 |
SelfConsciousness | 472 |
Philosophical Psychopathology and SelfConsciousness | 484 |
The Unity of Consciousness | 500 |
Consciousness and Intentionality | 519 |
Waking Sleeping and Dreaming | 127 |
Affective Consciousness | 141 |
Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences | 157 |
DrugInduced States | 171 |
Anomalous Experiences | 187 |
Mindfulness | 203 |
Mysticism | 217 |
An Outline | 243 |
The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness | 257 |
Representationalism about Consciousness | 272 |
HigherOrder Theories of Consciousness | 288 |
Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness | 314 |
Biological Naturalism | 327 |
Dualism Reductionism and Reflexive Monism | 349 |
Naturalistic Dualism | 363 |
Physicalist Panpsychism | 374 |
Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness | 391 |
Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument | 404 |
Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness | 537 |
Conscious and Unconscious Perception | 551 |
Consciousness of Action | 576 |
Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness | 591 |
Unity in Time Rather Than in Space | 607 |
Some Ontological | 621 |
Splitbrain Cases | 634 |
Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception | 648 |
Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury | 662 |
Anesthesia and Consciousness | 682 |
The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition | 695 |
Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness | 713 |
Neurophenomenology and the Microphenomenological Interview | 726 |
Descriptive Experience Sampling | 740 |
Experiential Neuroscience of Pain | 754 |
An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness | 769 |
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