Consciousness

  • Consciousness: Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind
    By Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani

    ... Pete Mandik's This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction (2013), and Andrew Bailey's (editor) Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers (2014). Some of the most important academic publishers have also produced useful reference guides, ...

  • Consciousness: An Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko

    ... consciousness areas (ffytche, 2000) or sites where consciousness is generated (Chalmers, 2000), and the brain processes involved as those 'that are qualia laden as opposed to those that are not' (Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001, p.

  • Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    By Christof Koch

    This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation--describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.

  • Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    By Christof Koch

    Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Christof Koch. CONFESSIONS OF A ROMANTIC REDUCTIONIST CHRBTOFKOCH Consciousness Consciousness Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Christof Koch The. CONSCIOUSNESS Front Cover.

  • Consciousness
    By Christopher S. Hill

    "3 Saul A. Kripke, Naming and Necessity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979). 44 Saul Kripke, “Identity and Necessity,” in Stephen P. Schwartz (ed.), Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ...

  • Consciousness: A User's Guide
    By Adam Zeman

    The first hint of an answer came at the turn of the century when two scientists working independently , Meyer and Overton , came up with similar observations , with a distinctly culinary flavour . The anaesthetic powers of anaesthetic ...

  • Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
    By Jeffrey Alan Gray

    ... Fritz Wolfgang 248 Naccache , Lionel 171 Nadel , Lynn 201 Nagel , Tom 45 natural selection 29 , 30–2 , 60 necessity of consciousness 90 neglect syndrome 215–23 Neisser , Ulrich 195 neocortex 320 neural correlates of consciousness ...

  • Consciousness: An Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore

    Consciousness 'has a survival value in its own right', says Gray (2004). He rules out epiphenomenalism, arguing that language, science and aesthetic appreciation would all be impossible without conscious experience, and that 'Whatever ...

  • Consciousness: An Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore

    Journal of Parapsychology, 62, 297–308 Wiseman, R.and Schlitz,M. (1998) Experimenter effectsand the remote detectionof staring. Journal ofParapsychology, 61(3), 197– 208. Wiseman, R., Smith, M. andKornbrot, D. (1996) Exploring possible ...

  • Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore, Susan J. Blackmore

    When psychologist Richard Wiseman re-enacted Victorian seances, his sitters saw objects floating in the dark, felt touches on their skin, heard bells ringing, and were convinced that spirits had been moving among them.

  • Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore

    The ventral stream is involved in perception and the dorsal stream in fast visuo-motor control. The ventral stream leads from primary visual cortex forward into the temporal cortex and is involved in building up accurate perceptions of ...

  • Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore

    ... Shilling THE BOOK OF NAORNAON Terryl Givens BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen THE BRAIN Michael O'Shea ... COMPUTER Darrel Ince CONAPUTER SCIENCE Subrata Dasgupta CONFUCIANISMA Daniel K. Gardner THE CONOUISTADORS Matthew ...

  • Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction
    By Susan Blackmore

    ... SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake SPORT Mike Cronin STARS Andrew King STATISTICS David J. Hand STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING David Blockley STUART BRITAIN John Morrill SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Stephen Blundell SYMANAETRY |an ...

  • Consciousness
    By Josh Weisberg

    Key Concepts in Philosophy Heather Battaly, Virtue Lisa Bortolotti, Irrationality Joseph Keim Campbell, Free Will Roy T. Cook, Paradoxes Douglas Edwards, Properties Bryan Frances, Disagreement Douglas Kutach, Causation Ian Evans and ...

  • Consciousness
    By William G. Lycan

    ... G. , 140 , 141 Shoemaker , S. , 66–69 , 141-142 Simak , C. , 146 Simon , H. , 137 Skinner , B. F. , 131-132 Slote ... 115-119 Wall , P. D. , 135 Weiskrantz , L. , 140 " What it's like , " 24 , 50 , 142–143 White , S. , 136 Wimsatt ...

  • Consciousness: The Science of Subjectivity
    By Antti Revonsuo

    The study of consciousness is recognized as one of the biggest remaining challenges to the scientific community. This book provides a fascinating introduction to the new science that promises to illuminate our understanding of the subject.

  • Consciousness
    By Frank Jackson

    Neither does it seem feasible to try to extract P from the concepts of consciousness we now have by some procedure of conceptual analysis¦any more than we could solve the life-matter problem simply by reflecting on the concept life.10 P ...

  • Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model
    By Rodrick Wallace

    That very success will, according to this perspective, virtually sculpt their individual conscious lives, ... The dance of consciousness seems uninterrupted to the dancer, yet whole realms of possibility are structurally inaccessible, ...

  • CONSCIOUSNESS: The BOOK
    By Steve Perrin

    In my mind, I picture a strange cat looking up at me—mildly I would say, unblinking—blue-gray face surrounded by an aura of ... That might explain the whole scene, even if I had to conjure up a cat to stand in for the true explanation.

  • Consciousness
    By Rocco J Gennaro

    This book introduces readers to the contemporary problem of consciousness, providing a clear introduction to the overall landscape and a fair-minded critical survey of various theories of consciousness.