The unity of consciousness / Tim Bayne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayne, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 341 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the self.

Contents:

Foundations. The phenomenal field ; Phenomenal unity : mereology ; Phenomenal unity : closure

Consciousness unified?. Motivating the unity thesis ; How to evaluate the unity thesis ; Fragments of consciousness? ; Anosognosia, schizophrenia, and multiplicity ; Hypnosis ; The split-brain syndrome

Implications. The quilt of consciousness ; The body ; The self.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-335) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-965940-0

1-283-57689-9

9786613889348

0-19-163988-5

OCLC:

922971531