Max Velmans is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Professor of Consciousness Studies at the University of Plymouth. He has been researching, writing and teaching consciousness studies for over 30 years and has over 90 publications in this area.
Part 1. Mind-Body Theories and Their Problems. What is Consciousness?
Conscious Souls, Brains and Quantum Mechanics. Are Mind and Matter the Same
Thing? Are Mind and Consciousness Just Activities? Could Robots be
Conscious? Part 2. A New Analysis: How to Marry Science with Experience.
Conscious Phenomenology and Common Sense. The Nature and Location of
Experiences. Experienced Worlds, The World Described by Physics, and The
Thing Itself. Subjective, Intersubjective and Objective Science. How
Consciousness Relates to Information Processing in the Brain. The Neural
Causes and Correlates of Consciousness. Part 3. A New Synthesis: Reflexive
Monism. What Consciousness Is. What Consciousness Does. Self-Consciousness
in a Reflexive Universe.
