Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Consciousness

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emergent property of our brain? A sequence of electrical sparks off electro-chemical neural activity?

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

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophy and Consciousness
Consciousness and conscious properties	p. 6
Identity, supervenience, reduction and emergence	p. 31
Reductive and non-reductive physicalisms	p. 54
Representationalist theories of conscious properties	p. 77
Neuroscience and Consciousness
Cortical evolution and Modularity	p. 100
Arousal, perception and affect	p. 124
Attention, working memory, language and executive function	p. 149
Neural models of conscious properties	p. 172
Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness
Measurement, localization, models and dissociation	p. 196
Correlates, realizers and multiple realization	p. 220
Microphysical reduction, overdetermination and coupling	p. 243
Embodied and embedded consciousness	p. 267
Concluding semi-scientific postscript	p. 295
Appendix: Functional neuroanatomy	p. 311
Notes	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 347
Index	p. 371
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