The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness.pdf

e Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

THE BLACKWELL

COMPANION TO

CONSCIOUSNESS

Max Velmans

Susan Schneider

Science Editor

Philosophy Editor

Advisory Editors

Science of Consciousness: Je rey Gray, John Kihlstrom,

Phil Merikle, Stevan Harnad

Philosophy of Consciousness: Ned Block, David Chalmers,

José Bermúdez, Brian McLaughlin, George Graham

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1 2007

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e Blackwell companion to consciousness / edited by Max Velmans, science editor and

Susan Schneider, philosophy editor

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN- 13: 978–1– 4051–2019–7 (hardback)

ISBN- 13: 978–1– 4051–6000–1 (pbk.)

1. Consciousness. I. Velmans, Max, 1942– II. Schneider, Susan, 1968– III.

Companion to consciousness.

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Contents

List of gures and tables

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Susan Schneider and Max Velmans

Part I Problems of Consciousness

1 A brief history of the scienti c approach to the study of consciousness

Chris Frith and Geraint Rees

2 Philosophical problems of consciousness

Michael Tye

Part II e Domain of Consciousness

Origins and Extent of Consciousness

3 Consciousness in infants

Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy

4 Animalconsciousness

Colin Allen and Mark Beko

5 Rethinking the evolution of consciousness

omas Polger

6 Machine consciousness

Igor Aleksander

Some Varieties of Conscious Experience

7 Normal and abnormal states of consciousness

101

J. Allan Hobson

8 A ective consciousness

114

Jaak Panksepp

9 Clinical pathologies and unusual experiences

130

Richard P. Bentall

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10 Altered states of consciousness: drug-induced states

141

Edward F. Pace-Schott and J. Allan Hobson

11 Meditation

154

David Fontana

12 Mystical experience

163

David Fontana

Breakdowns and the Unity of Consciousness

173

13 e case of blindsight

175

Lawrence Weiskrantz

14 Split- brain cases

181

Mary K. Colvin and Michael S. Gazzaniga

15 Philosophical psychopathology and self-consciousness

194

G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham

16 Coming together: the unity of conscious experience

209

Barry Dainton

Part III Some Contemporary eories of Consciousness

223

17 e hard problem of consciousness

225

David Chalmers

18 e global workspace theory of consciousness

236

Bernard J. Baars

19 e intermediate level theory of consciousness

247

Jesse Prinz

20 Representationalism about consciousness

261

William Seager and David Bourget

21 Higher-order theories of consciousness

277

Peter Carruthers

22 e information integration theory of consciousness

287

Giulio Tononi

23 Quantum mechanical theories of consciousness

300

Henry Stapp

24 Daniel Dennett on the nature of consciousness

313

Susan Schneider

25 Biological naturalism

325

John Searle

26 Mysterianism

335

Mark Rowlands

27 Dualism, reductionism, and re exive monism

346

Max Velmans

28 Naturalistic dualism

359

David Chalmers

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