The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, within the realms of Philosophy and Psychology, is a comprehensive collection exploring the multifaceted nature of consciousness. This book delves into the scientific, philosophical, and psychological approaches to understanding consciousness, offering insights from leading experts on theories, phenomena, and debates in the field. Rather than a single narrative, it provides a broad array of perspectives on the complex questions surrounding human awareness.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by the study of consciousness and want to explore diverse perspectives from leading experts in philosophy and psychology. This comprehensive collection offers in-depth insights into the nature of consciousness, making it an engaging read for those fascinated by the complexities of the human mind.

Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

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Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field.

Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more.

Covers a wide array of topics that include the origins and extent of consciousness, various consciousness experiences such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness.

Presents 54 peer-reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470674079

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Max Velmans
Edited by Susan Schneider

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 43.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1315g

Pages: 848

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Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Susan Schneider is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a faculty member in the technology and ethics group at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work is on the nature of the self and mind, which she examines through issues in philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence (A.I.), metaphysics, astrobiology, epistemology, and neuroscience. She is the author of The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011) and Science Fiction and Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), and was responsible for the volume's philosophical content.

Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been involved in consciousness studies for over 40 years. He has over 100 publications on this topic including Understanding Consciousness (2000/2009) and Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (2017). He is a co-founder and former Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and was responsible for the volume's scientific content.