Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy
Author:   William Hirstein (Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Elmhurst College, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199231904


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   26 January 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy


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Author:   William Hirstein (Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Elmhurst College, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.50cm
Weight:   0.706kg
ISBN:  

9780199231904


ISBN 10:   0199231907
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   26 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: The Impasse 2: An Alternative Framework 3: The Brain and its Cortex 4: Consciousness 5: Preparing Representations 6: Executive Processes 7: Sense of Self 8: The Reality and Importance of the Executive Self 9: Sharing Conscious States 10: Mindtalk 11: Disentangling Self and Consciousness 12: Representation and Consciousness 13: The Mind and Its Care

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William Hirstein is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elmhurst College, in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis, in 1994. His graduate and postdoctoral studies were conducted under the supervision of John Searle, V. S. Ramachandran, and Patricia Churchland. He is the author of several books, including On the Churchlands (Wadsworth, 2004), and Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (MIT, 2005).

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