Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness / Rex Welshon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welshon, Rex, 1955- author.

Series:

ebrary.

ebrary

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7735-9464-7

OCLC:

794490814