How the Mind Uses the Brain To Move the Body and Image the Universe

With recent advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience, the nature of consciousness and the relation between mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy Yet agreement looks farther away than ever.

Ralph D. Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Clark Atlanta University. His books include Coberence and Verification in Ethics (1991), Questioning Consciousness (1995), and Curious Emotions (2005).
Natika Newton is Professor of Philosophy at Nassau Community College and author of Foundations of Understanding (1996). Ellis and Newton have co-edited The Caldron of Consciousness (2000) and now co-edit the pathbreaking series of monographs, Consciousness and Emotion.