Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness

by Rex Welshon

Overview

This introduction to these and many of the other problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of the past thirty years and presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues and debates. CONTENTS: Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: problems of consciousness 1. Refection on consciousness before the mid-twentieth century 2. Functional neuroanatomy 3. Primate neuropsychology 4. Human evolution 5. Contemporary neuropsychology 6. Neuropsychology of consciousness 7. Philosophy of mind and consciousness 8. Reduction and non-reduction 9. Emergence 10. Prospects for neural theories of consciousness Notes Bibliography Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844651597
Publisher:	Acumen Publishing
Publication date:	10/28/2010
Pages:	389
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Rex Welshon is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction 1

Part I Philosophy And Consciousness

1 Consciousness and conscious properties 6

2 Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence 31

3 Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms 54

4 Representationalist theories of conscious properties 77

Part II Neuroscience And Consciousness

5 Cortical evolution and modularity 100

6 Arousal, perception and affect 124

7 Attention, working memory, language and executive function 149

8 Neural models of conscious properties 172

Part III Philosophy, Neuroscience And Consciousness

9 Measurement, localization, models and dissociation 196

10 Correlates, realizers and multiple realization 220

11 Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling 243

12 Embodied and embedded consciousness 267

Concluding semi-scientific postscript 295

Appendix: Functional neuroanatomy 311

Notes 339

Bibliography 347

Index 371