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Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness /

Introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view.--

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Welshon, Rex, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Philosophy and consciousness. Consciousness and conscious properties ; Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence ; Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms ; Representationalist theories of conscious properties
  • Neuroscience and consciousness. Cortical evolution and modularity ; Arousal, perception and effect ; Attention, working memory, language and executive function ; Neural models of conscious properties
  • Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness. Measurement, localization, models and dissociation ; Correlates, realizers and multiple realization ; Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling ; Embodied and embedded consciousness
  • Concluding semi-scientific postscript
  • Appendix : functional neuroanatomy.