Detailansicht
The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781119002239
Umbreit-Nr.: 2159824
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 848 S., 7.85 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 16.03.2017
Auflage: 2/2017
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of<i>The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness</i>offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.</p><ul><li>Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field</li><li>Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more</li><li>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</li><li>Presents 54 peer-reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines</li></ul>
- Kurztext
- 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
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b> Susan Schneider</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a faculty member in the technology and ethics group at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work is on the nature of the self and mind, which she examines through issues in philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence (A.I.), metaphysics, astrobiology, epistemology, and neuroscience. She is the author of<i>The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction</i> (2011) and<i>Science Fiction and Philosophy, Second Edition</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), and was responsible for the volume's philosophical content.<p><b> Max Velmans</b> is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been involved in consciousness studies for over 40 years. He has over 100 publications on this topic including<i>Understanding Consciousness</i> (2000/2009) and<i>Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness</i> (2017). He is a co-founder and former Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and was responsible for the volume's scientific content.