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Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /Rex Welshon.

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Welshon, Rex [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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

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computer

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online resource

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9780773594647

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Electronic Books.

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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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