Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness / Rex Welshon.

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Welshon, Rex [author.]

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TextPublisher: Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, [2011]Distributor: Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780773594647
0773594647

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B105 C477 W44 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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