Process Approaches to Consciousness in

This collection opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. Approaching consciousness from diverse disciplinary perspectives—philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, neuropathology, psychotherapy, biology, animal ethology, and physics—the contributors offer empirical and philosophical support for a model of consciousness inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947). Whitehead’s model is developed in ways he could not have anticipated to show how it can advance current debates beyond well-known sticking points. This has trenchant consequences for epistemology and suggests fresh and promising new perspectives on such topics as the mind-body problem, the neurobiology of consciousness, animal consciousness, the evolution of consciousness, panpsychism, the unity of consciousness, epiphenomenalism, free will, and causation.

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Key to Abbreviations of Whitehead's Work	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the Stage
Process Thought as a Heuristic for Investigating Consciousness	p. 37
Whitehead as a Neglected Figure of Twentieth-Century Philosophy	p. 57
Consciousness as a Topic of Investigation in Western Thought	p. 73
Whitehead's Unique Approach to the Topic of Consciousness	p. 137
Psychology and Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness as Subjective Form: Whitehead's Nonreductionist Naturalism	p. 175
The Interpretation and Integration of the Literature on Consciousness from a Process Perspective	p. 201
Windows on Nonhuman Minds	p. 219
From Metaphysics to (Neuro) Science (and Back Again)
Panexperientialism, Quantum Theory, and Neuroplasticity	p. 235
The Evolution of Consciousness	p. 261
The Carrier Theory of Causation	p. 273
Clinical Applications: Consciousness as Process
The Microgenetic Revolution in Contemporary Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics	p. 295
From Coma to Consciousness: Recovery and the Process of Differentiation	p. 327
Consciousness and Rationality from a Process Perspective	p. 345
History (and Future?) of Philosophy
Consciousness, Memory, and Recollection According to Whitehead	p. 387
Consciousness and Causation in Whitehead's Phenomenology of Becoming	p. 407
List of Contributors	p. 463
Index	p. 467
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Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind

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