Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness

Rex Welshon

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 2011

Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness

Rex Welshon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773594647

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About this book

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?

Author / Editor information

Welshon Rex :

Rex Welshon is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.Rex Welshon is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

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"[Welshon] brilliantly summarizes, synthesizes, and explains the state of affairs in all of consciousness studies in a way that is accessible and engaging. His work is the ideal guide to the field, simultaneously noting all of the major features of the landscape and sharing compelling insights about each of the important subsidiary philosophical arguments and scientific developments of which the major features are comprised." The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Philosophy and Consciousness
Consciousness and Conscious Properties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Identity, Supervenience, Reduction and Emergence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Reductive and Non-Reductive Physicalisms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Representationalist Theories of Conscious Properties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Neuroscience and Consciousness
Cortical Evolution and Modularity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Arousal, Perception and Affect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Attention, Working Memory, Language and Executive Function Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Neural Models of Conscious Properties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness
Measurement, Localization, Models and Dissociation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Correlates, Realizers and Multiple Realization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Microphysical Reduction, Overdetermination and Coupling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Embodied and Embedded Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Concluding Semi-Scientific Postscript Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Appendix: Functional Neuroanatomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: January 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780773594647