Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Weber, Michel; Weekes, Anderson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. Approaching consciousness from diverse disciplinary perspectives-philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, neuropathology, psychotherapy, biology, animal ethology, and physics-the contributors offer empirical and philosophical support for a model of consciousness inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). Whitehead's model is developed in ways he could not have anticipated to show how it can advance current debates beyond well-known sticking points. This has trenchant consequences for epistemology and suggests fresh and promising new perspectives on such topics as the mind-body problem, the neurobiology of consciousness, animal consciousness, the evolution of consciousness, panpsychism, the unity of consciousness, epiphenomenalism, free will, and causation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438429427
• Artikelnr.: 60491140

Autorenporträt

Michel Weber is Director of the Center for Philosophical Practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes," Brussels, and author of Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics. Anderson Weekes is an independent scholar and an educational consultant in New York.