Consciousness in contemporary science /
The significance of consciousness in modern science is discussed by a number of leading authorities from the fields of psychology, neurology and philosophy. Topics include disorders of consciousness, the functions of consciousness and the basis of consciousness in cognition.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Oxford science publications.
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Table of Contents:
- yìshì, duh, um, and consciousness / Kathleen V. Wilkes
- Quining qualia / Daniel C. Dennett
- Consciousness, intrinsic intentionality, and self-understanding machines / Robert Van Gulick
- The (haunted) brain and consciousness / Edoardo Bisiach
- Phenomenal experience and functionalism / Anthony J. Marcel
- What concept of consciousness? / Alan Allport
- Some contributions of neuropsychology of vision and memory to the problem of consciousness / Lawrence Weiskrantz
- Hypermnesia and insight / Matthew Hugh Erdelyi
- Brain modularity : towards a philosophy of conscious experience / Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Integrated field theory of consciousness / Marcel Kinsbourne
- Consciousness in science and philosophy : conscience and con-science / Richard L. Gregory
- Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness / Patricia Smith Churchland
- Information-processing models of consciousness : possibilities and problems / Tim Shallice
- The control operations of consciousness / Carlo Umiltà.
- (cont.) A computational analysis of consciousness / P.N. Johnson-Laird
- On changing one's mind : a possible function of consciousness / Keith Oatley.