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Book SynopsisUpdated 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.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x
Introduction xix
Part I The Problems of Consciousness 1
1 A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness 3
Chris D. Frith and Geraint Rees
2 Philosophical Problems of Consciousness 17
Michael Tye
3 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 32
David Chalmers
Part II The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness 43
4 Consciousness in Infants 45
Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy
5 Animal Consciousness 63
Colin Allen and Michael Trestman
6 Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness 77
Thomas W. Polger
7 Machine Consciousness 93
Igor Aleksander
8 Panpsychism 106
Philip Goff
Part III Some Varieties of Conscious Experience 125
9 States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming 127
J. Allan Hobson
10 Affective Consciousness 141
Jaak Panksepp
11 Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences 157
Richard P. Bentall
12 Altered States of Consciousness: Drug]Induced States 171
David E. Presti
13 Anomalous Experiences 187
Etzel Cardeña
14 Mindfulness 203
Peter Malinowski
15 Altered States: Mysticism 217
David Fontana
Part IV Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness 227
16 The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Predictions and Results 229
Bernard J. Baars
17 The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Outline 243
Giulio Tononi
18 The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness 257
Jesse Prinz
19 Representationalism about Consciousness 272
William Seager and David Bourget
20 Higher]Order Theories of Consciousness 288
Peter Carruthers
21 Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples 298
Harald Atmanspacher
22 Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness 314
Susan Schneider
23 Biological Naturalism 327
John Searle
24 Emergentism 337
Gerald Vision
25 Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism 349
Max Velmans
26 Naturalistic Dualism 363
David Chalmers
27 Physicalist Panpsychism 374
Galen Strawson
Part V Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness 391
28 Anti]materialist Arguments and Influential Replies 393
Joe Levine
29 Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument 404
Torin Alter
30 Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness 415
Brian P. Mclaughlin
31 Functionalism and Qualia 430
Robert Van Gulick
32 The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness 445
Jaegwon Kim
33 The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness 458
Pete Mandik
34 Self]Consciousness 472
José Luis Bermúdez
35 Philosophical Psychopathology and Self]Consciousness 484
G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham
36 Coming Together: The Unity of Consciousness 500
Barry Dainton
37 Consciousness and Intentionality 519
George Graham, Terence Horgan, and John Tienson
Part VI Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness 537
Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness
38 Studying Consciousness Through Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, and the Attentional Blink 539
Michael A. Cohen and Marvin M. Chun
39 Conscious and Unconscious Perception 551
Sid Kouider and Nathan Faivre
40 Conscious and Unconscious Memory 562
John F. Kihlstrom, Jennifer Dorfman, and Lillian Park
41 Consciousness of Action 576
Marc Jeannerod
Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness 589
42 Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness 591
Geraint Rees and Chris D. Frith
43 Conscious Processing: Unity in Time Rather Than in Space 607
Wolf Singer
44 Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Some Ontological Considerations 621
Giulio Tononi
45 Split]brain Cases 634
Mary (Molly) Colvin, Nicole L. Marinsek, Michael B. Miller, and Michael S. Gazzaniga
46 Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action 648
Melvyn A. Goodale
47 Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury 662
Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, and Olivia Gosseries
48 Anesthesia and Consciousness 682
John F. Kihlstrom and Randall C. Cork
49 The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition: First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 695
Aaron Schurger
First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 711
50 Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness 713
Shaun Gallagher
51 Neurophenomenology and the Micro]phenomenological Interview 726
Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin
52 Descriptive Experience Sampling 740
Russell T. Hurlburt
53 Experiential Neuroscience of Pain 754
Donald D. Price
54 An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness 769
Max Velmans
Resources for Students 785
Index 788
