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Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /Rex Welshon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, (c)2011.; Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773594647
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B105 C477 .P455 2014
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Contents:
PHILOSOPHY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence -- Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms -- Representationalist theories of conscious properties.
NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Arousal, perception and effect -- Attention, working memory, language and executive function -- Neural models of conscious properties.
PHILOSOPHY, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Correlates, realizers and multiple realization -- Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling -- Embodied and embedded consciousness.
Subject: Introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view.
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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.

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