Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness

Rex Welshon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2010
Acumen Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84465-159-7 (ISBN)

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Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. This title presents an introduction to the problems posed by consciousness that discusses one of the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind and presents an assessment of the issues and debates.

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. This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of mind of the past thirty years and presents an up to date assessment of the issues and debates. The reader is first introduced to the way that consciousness has been thought about in the history of philosophy and psychology. The author then presents an informal and largely non-technical account of the properties of consciousness that are thought to be the most paradigmatic and problematic. Recent scientific work on consciousness, from neurophysiological studies of the brain and evolutionary studies of the development of consciousness to computational theories of the mind are then examined and the philosophical problems that these accounts raise are systematically introduced. The final chapters of the book consider more practical matters by addressing self-deception, neuroses, the unconscious and notions of the self, before concluding with an assessment of the future for psychology and the philosophy of mind.

Rex Welshon is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: problems of consciousness 1. Refection on consciousness before the mid-twentieth century 2. Functional neuroanatomy 3. Primate neuropsychology 4. Human evolution 5. Contemporary neuropsychology 6. Neuropsychology of consciousness 7. Philosophy of mind and consciousness 8. Reduction and non-reduction 9. Emergence 10. Prospects for neural theories of consciousness Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2010
Verlagsort	Durham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-84465-159-2 / 1844651592
ISBN-13	978-1-84465-159-7 / 9781844651597
Zustand	Neuware