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Philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness / Rex Welshon.
| Author/creator | Welshon, Rex, 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011. |
| Description | viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Philosophy and consciousness. Consciousness and conscious properties ; Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence ; Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms ; Representationalist theories of conscious properties -- Neuroscience and consciousness. Cortical evolution and modularity ; Arousal, perception and effect ; Attention, working memory, language and executive function ; Neural models of conscious properties -- Philosophy, neuroscience and consciousness. Measurement, localization, models and dissociation ; Correlates, realizers and multiple realization ; Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling ; Embodied and embedded consciousness -- Concluding semi-scientific postscript -- Appendix : functional neuroanatomy. |
| Abstract | Introduces many of the current neuroscientific proposals about consciousness and discusses them from a philosophical point of view.-- Source other than Library of Congress. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012454219 |
| ISBN | 9780773538412 (bound) |
| ISBN | 0773538410 (bound) |
| ISBN | 9780773538429 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0773538429 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |