Max Velmans

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness

Selected works of Max Velmans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. With continuing contemporary relevance, and significant historical impact, this collection of works is an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the field of consciousness studies and the philosophy of the mind.

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Produktdetails

• World Library of Psychologists
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781138699441
• ISBN-10: 1138699446
• Artikelnr.: 46957161

Autorenporträt

Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. How To Define Consciousness-And How Not
To Define Consciousness 3. Consciousness, brain and the physical world 4.
An epistemology for the study of consciousness 5. Reflexive Monism:
psychophysical relations among mind, matter and consciousness 6. Extracts
from "Is Human Information Processing Conscious?" 7. Extracts from
"Consciousness from a First-person perspective" 8. How could conscious
experiences affect brains? 9. Conscious Agency and the
Preconscious/Unconscious Self 10. The evolution of consciousness 11. How to
Arrive at an Eastern Place from a Western Direction: Convergences and
Divergences among Samkya Dualism, Advaita Nondualism, the
Body-Mind-Consciousness Trident Model and Reflexive Monism Index