Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness.
Title:
Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness.
Author:
Welshon, Rex.
ISBN:
9780773594647
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (399 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 1. Consciousness and conscious properties -- 2. Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence -- 3. Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms -- 4. Representationalist theories of conscious properties -- PART II: NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 5. Cortical evolution and modularity -- 6. Arousal, perception and affect -- 7. Attention, working memory, language and executive function -- 8. Neural models of conscious properties -- PART III: PHILOSOPHY, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- 9. Measurement, localization, models and dissociation -- 10. Correlates, realizers and multiple realization -- 11. Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling -- 12. Embodied and embedded consciousness -- Concluding semi-scientific postscript -- Appendix: Functional neuroanatomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emergent property of our brain? A sequence of electrical sparks off electro-chemical neural activity?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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