Updated and revised, the highly–anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today. Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more Covers a wide array of topics that include the origins and extent of consciousness, various consciousness experiences such as meditation and drug–induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness Presents 54 peer–reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines INDICE: Notes on Contributors .Introduction .Part I: The Problems of Consciousness .1. A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness Chris Frith and Geraint Rees .2. Philosophical Problems of Consciousness Michael Tye .3. The Hard Problem of Consciousness David Chalmers .Part II: The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness .4. Consciousness in Infants Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy .5. Animal Consciousness Colin Allen & Michael Trestman .6. Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness Thomas Polger .7. Machine Consciousness Igor Aleksander .8. Panpsychism Philip Goff .Part III: Some Varieties of Conscious Experience .9. States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping and Dreaming J. Allan Hobson .10. Affective Consciousness Jaak Panksepp .11. Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences Richard P. Bentall .12. Altered States of Consciousness: Drug–Induced States David E. Presti .13. Anomalous Experiences Etzel Cardeña .14. Mindfulness Peter Malinowski .15. Altered States: Mysticism David Fontana .Part IV: Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness .16. Global Workspace Theory of consciousness: Predictions and results Bernard Baars .17. Information Integration Theory of Consciousness: An Outline Giulio Tononi .18. The Intermediate level theory of Consciousness Jesse Prinz .19. Representationalism about Consciousness William Seager and David Bourget .20. Higher– order Theories of Consciousness Peter Carruthers .21. Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples Harald Atmanspacher .22. Daniel Dennett on the nature of consciousness Susan Schneider .23. Biological Naturalism John Searle .24. Emergentism Gerald Vision .25. Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism Max Velmans .26. Naturalistic dualism David Chalmers .27. Physicalist Panpsychism Galen Strawson .Part V: Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness .28. Physicalism, anti– physicalist arguments and influential replies Joe Levine .29. Physicalism and the knowledge argument Torin Alter .30. Type Materialism for phenomenal consciousness Brian P. McLaughlin .31. Functionalism and Qualia Robert Van Gulick .32. The causal efficacy of consciousness Jaegwon Kim .33. The neurophilosophy of consciousness Pete Mandik, William Patterson .34. Self– consciousness Jose Luis Bermudez .35. Philosophical Psychopathology and Self–Consciousness G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham .36. Coming together: the unity of conscious experience Barry Dainton .37. Consciousness and intentionality George Graham, Terence Horgan, and John Tienson .Part VI: Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness .Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness .38. Studying consciousness through inattentional blindness, change blindness, and the attentional blink Michael A. Cohen & Marvin M. Chun .39. Conscious and Unconscious Perception Sid Kouider and Nathan Faivre .40. Conscious and Unconscious Memory John F. Kihlstrom, Jennifer Dorfman, and Lillian Park .41. Consciousness of Action Marc Jeannerod .Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness .42. Methodologies for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness Geraint Rees and Chris Frith .43. Conscious processing: Unity in time rather than in space Wolf Singer .44. Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Some Ontological Considerations Giulio Tononi .45. Split–Brain Cases Mary K. Colvib, Nicole L. Marinsek, Michael B.Miller, and Michael S. Gazzaniga .46. Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action Melvyn A. Goodale .47. Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, and Olivia Gosseries .48. Anesthesia and Consciousness John F. Kihlstrom, and Randall C. Cork .49. The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition Aaron Schurger .50. Phenomenological approaches to consciousness Shaun Gallagher .51. Neurophenomenology and the elicitation interview Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin .52. Descriptive experience sampling Russell T. Hurlburt .53. Experiential Neuroscience of pain Donald D. Price .54. An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness Max Velmans .List of Web Resources .Index
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