Tim Bayne examines the idea that a human being can have only a single stream of consciousness at any one point in time. He draws on philosophy, psychology,and neuroscience to defend the claim that consciousness is unified, and he explores the implications for theories of consciousness and for our understanding of embodiment and the self. INDICE: 1: The Phenomenal Field; 2: Phenomenal unity: Mereology; 3: Phenomenal unity: Closure; 4: Motivating the Unity Thesis; 5: How to Evaluate theUnity Thesis; 6: Fragments of consciousness; 7: Anosognosia, Schizophrenia, and Multiplicity; 8: Hypnosis; 9: The Split-brain Syndrome; 10: The Quilt of Consciousness; 11: The Body; 12: The Self
- ISBN: 978-0-19-921538-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés