Frontiers of consciousness

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Title:

Frontiers of consciousness

Author:

Weiskrantz, Lawrence.

ISBN:

9780199233151

Publication Information:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

xvii, 340 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Chichele lectures ; 2008

The Chichele lectures ; 2008

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Consciousness and explanation / Martin Davies -- Explanatory gaps and dualist intuitions / David Papineau -- Emotional coloration of consciousness: how feelings come about / Joseph LeDoux -- Emotion, higher-order syntactic thoughts, and consciousness / Edmund T. Rolls -- Conscious and unconscious visual processing in the human brain / A.D. Milner -- Vision, action, and awareness / Manos Tsakiris and Patrick Haggard -- The social functions of consciousness / Chris D. Frith -- Are we studying consciousness yet? / Hakwan C. Lau -- Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness / Cecilia Heyes -- Why a rat is not a beast machine / Anthony Dickinson -- Does consciousness spring from the brain?: Dilemmas of awareness in practice and in theory / Adam Zeman -- On the ubiquity of conscious/unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology / Lawrence Weiskrantz.

Abstract:

"The book stems from the Chichcle lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume, which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in consciousness." "The book includes chapters considering the apparent explanatory gap between science and consciousness, our conscious experience of emotions such as fear, and of willed actions by ourselves and others. It looks at subjective differences between two ways in which visual information guides behaviour, and scientific investigation of consciousness in non-human animals. It explores the challenges that the mind-brain relation presents for clinical practice as well as for theories of consciousness. It draws on leading research from philosophy, experimental psychology, functional imaging of the brain, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical neurology."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Consciousness -- Physiological aspects.

Neuropsychology.

Consciousness -- physiology.

Neuropsychology -- methods.

Philosophy.

Unconscious (Psychology)

Added Author:

Weiskrantz, Lawrence.

Davies, Martin, 1950-

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In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The 'Frontiers of Consciousness' is a major interdisciplinary exploration of consciousness. The book stems from the Chichele lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume, which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in consciousness. The book includes chapters considering the apparent explanatory gap between science and consciousness, our conscious experience of emotions such as fear, and of willed actions by ourselves and others. It looks at subjective differences between two ways in which visual information guides behaviour, and scientific investigation of consciousness in non-human animals. It looks at the challenges that the mind-brain relation presents for clinical practice as well as for theories of consciousness. The book draws on leading research from philosophy, experimental psychology, functional imaging of the brain, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical neurology. Distinctive in its accessibility, authority, and its depth of coverage, 'Frontiers of Consciousness' will be a groundbreaking and influential addition to the consciousness literature.