
Frontiers of Consciousness
Chichele Lectures
Oxford University Press
Published on 16. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
358 pages
978-0-19-923315-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 line illustrations & 4 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-923315-1 (9780199233151)
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Editor
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK
Content
1. Consciousness and explanation ; 2. Explanatory gaps and dualist intuitions ; 3. Emotional coloration of consciousness: how feelings came about ; 4. Emotion, higher order syntactic thoughts and consciousness ; 5. Conscious and unconscious visual processing in the human brain ; 6. Vision, action and awareness ; 7. The social functions of consciousness ; 8. Are we studying consciousness yet? ; 9. Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness ; 10. Why a rat is not a beast machine ; 11. Does consciousness spring from the brain? Dilemmas of awareness in practice and theory ; 12. On the ubiquity of conscious-unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology