Overview

In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The 'Frontiers of Consciousness' is a major interdisciplinary exploration of consciousness. The book stems from the Chichele lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume, which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in consciousness. The book includes chapters considering the apparent explanatory gap between science and consciousness, our conscious experience of emotions such as fear, and of willed actions by ourselves and others. It looks at subjective differences between two ways in which visual information guides behaviour, and scientific investigation of consciousness in non-human animals. It looks at the challenges that the mind-brain relation presents for clinical practice as well as for theories of consciousness. The book draws on leading research from philosophy, experimental psychology, functional imaging of the brain, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical neurology. Distinctive in its accessibility, authority, and its depth of coverage, 'Frontiers of Consciousness' will be a groundbreaking and influential addition to the consciousness literature.

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Author:   Lawrence Weiskrantz (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Martin Davies (Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780199233151

ISBN 10:   0199233152
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   16 October 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Martin Davies: Consciousness and explanation 2: David Papineau: Explanatory gaps and dualist intuitions 3: Joseph Le Doux: Emotional coloration of consciousness: how feelings came about 4: Edmund T Rolls: Emotion, higher order syntactic thoughts and consciousness 5: A D Milner: Conscious and unconscious visual processing in the human brain 6: Manos Tsakiris & Patrick Haggard: Vision, action and awareness 7: Chris D Frith: The social functions of consciousness 8: Hakwan Lau: Are we studying consciousness yet? 9: Cecilia Heyes: Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness 10: Anthony Dickinson: Why a rat is not a beast machine 11: Adam Zeman: Does consciousness spring from the brain? Dilemmas of awareness in practice and theory 12: Lawrence Weiskrantz: On the ubiquity of conscious-unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology

Reviews

""...Frontiers of Consciousness presents a...useful account of contemporary work in the various fields of consciousness research.""--Metapsychology Online Reviews

<br>. ..Frontiers of Consciousness presents a...useful account of contemporary work in the various fields of consciousness research. --Metapsychology Online Reviews<br>

...Frontiers of Consciousness presents a...useful account of contemporary work in the various fields of consciousness research.--Metapsychology Online Reviews

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