Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /Rex Welshon.
Welshon, Rex,
Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /Rex Welshon. - Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, (c)2011. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I: -- PHILOSOPHY AND CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness and conscious properties -- Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence -- Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms -- Representationalist theories of conscious properties. Part II -- NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS Cortical evolution and modularity -- Arousal, perception and effect -- Attention, working memory, language and executive function -- Neural models of conscious properties. Part III: -- PHILOSOPHY, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS Measurement, localization, models and dissociation -- Correlates, realizers and multiple realization -- Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling -- Embodied and embedded consciousness. CONCLUDING SEMI-SCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT APPENDIX : FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY
Introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view.
9780773594647
Consciousness.
Neurosciences.
Electronic Books.
B105 C477 / .P455 2014
Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /Rex Welshon. - Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, (c)2011. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I: -- PHILOSOPHY AND CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness and conscious properties -- Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence -- Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms -- Representationalist theories of conscious properties. Part II -- NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS Cortical evolution and modularity -- Arousal, perception and effect -- Attention, working memory, language and executive function -- Neural models of conscious properties. Part III: -- PHILOSOPHY, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS Measurement, localization, models and dissociation -- Correlates, realizers and multiple realization -- Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling -- Embodied and embedded consciousness. CONCLUDING SEMI-SCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT APPENDIX : FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY
Introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view.
9780773594647
Consciousness.
Neurosciences.
Electronic Books.
B105 C477 / .P455 2014