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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
Max Velmans and Susan Schneider (eds)
A substantial review of the field, with 55 chapters by major authors.
Published by Blackwell
ISBN 1405160004
Understanding Consciousness
Max Velmans
"This book is excellent. There are lots of books on consciousness, but few which mix the philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific, and even fewer which are written about an axe to grind... a lovely book... I'll be recommending it to everyone I see."
Professor John Kilhlstrom
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Published by Routledge
ISBN 0-415-22496-6
The Nature of Consciousness
Edited by Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Guven Guzeldere
Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works in neuropsychology) on consciousness through 1996, and includes some forthcoming articles. Its extensive coverage strikes a balancee between seminal works of the past few decades and the leading edge of philosophical research on consciousness.
Published by the MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-52210-1
Journey to the Centre of the Mind
Susan A Greenfield
This text offers a unifying theory of consciousness that encompasses both phenomenological mental events and physical aspects of brain function. Using information gathered from clues in animal behaviour, human brain damage, computer science, neurobiology and philosophy, Greenfield offers a "Concentric theory" of consciousness and shows how certain events in the brain correspond to our qualitative experience of the world. Demonstrating the ways in which we can interpret the experience of consciousness in terms of interactions among neurons, she explores how much we can learn by continuing to find the links between our physical and mental inner worlds.
Published by W H Freeman & Company
ISBN 0-716-72723-4
On the Nature of Consciousness
Harry T Hunt
This text examines consciousness, ranging from ancient Greece to empirical neuropsychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. It includes a review of the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consciousness.
Published by Yale University Press
ISBN 0-300-06230-3
Consciousness and Experience
William G Lycan
This sequel to 'Consciousness' (1987) continues the author's discussion of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to include issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years.
Published by the MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-112197-2
Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of Phenomenological Mind
Michael Tye
Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and grey matter comprising our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a theory about the phenomenal 'what it feels like' aspect of consciousness. The test of any such theory, according to Tye, lies in how well it handles ten critical problems of consciousness.
Published by the MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-70064-6
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