Gennaro The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-38680-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

There has been an explosion of work on consciousness in the last thirty to forty years from philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists. Thus, there is a need for an interdisciplinary, comprehensive volume in the field that brings together contributions from a wide range of experts on fundamental and cutting-edge topics. The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness fills this need and makes each chapter’s importance understandable to students and researchers from a variety of backgrounds. Designed to complement and better explain primary sources, this volume is a valuable "first-stop" publication for undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in any course on "Consciousness," "Philosophy of Mind," or "Philosophy of Psychology," as well as a valuable handbook for researchers in these fields who want a useful reference close at hand. The 34 chapters, all published here for the first time, are divided into three parts:

- Part I covers the "History and Background Metaphysics" of consciousness, such as dualism, materialism, free will, personal identity, and a chapter on Indian philosophy.

- Part II is on specific "Contemporary Theories of Consciousness" with chapters on representational, information integration, global workspace, attention-based, and quantum theories.

- Part III is entitled "Major Topics in Consciousness Research" with chapters on psychopathologies, dreaming, meditation, time, action, emotion, multisensory experience, animal and robot consciousness, and the unity of consciousness.

Each chapter begins with a brief introduction and concludes with a list of, "Related Topics" as well as a list of, "References," making the volume indispensable for the newcomer and experienced researcher alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gennaro, Rocco J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Rocco J. Gennaro

Part I. Consciousness: History and Background Metaphysics

- Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Immortality

Amy Kind

- Consciousness in Western Philosophy

Larry Jorgenson

- Materialism

Janet Levin

- Dualism

William S. Robinson

- Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism: The Radical Wing of Consciousness Studies

William Seager

- Consciousness, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility

Gregg Caruso

- Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem in Indian Philosophy

Christian Coseru

Part II. Contemporary Theories of Consciousness

- Representational Theories of Consciousness

Rocco J. Gennaro

- The Global Workspace Theory

Bernard Baars and Adam Alonzi

- The Information Integration Theory

Francis Fallon

- The Multiple Drafts Model

Francis Fallon and Andrew Brook

- The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness

David Barrett

- The Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness

Michael Graziano

- Biological Naturalism and Biological Realism

Antti Revonsuo

- Sensorimotor and Enactive Approaches to Consciousness

Erik Myin and Victor Loughlin

- Quantum Theories of Consciousness

Paavo Pylkkänen

Part III. Major Topics in Consciousness Research

- The Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Valerie Hardcastle and Vicente Raja

- Consciousness and Attention

Wayne Wu

- Consciousness and Intentionality

David Pitt

- Consciousness and Conceptualism

Philippe Chuard

- Consciousness, Time, and Memory

Ian Phillips

- Consciousness and Action

Shaun Gallagher

- Consciousness and Emotion

Demian Whiting

- Multisensory Consciousness and Synesthesia

Berit Brogaard and Elijah Chudnoff

- Consciousness and Psychopathology

Rocco J. Gennaro

- Post-Comatose Disorders of Consciousness

Andrew Peterson and Tim Bayne

- The Unity of Consciousness

Elizabeth Schechter

- The Biological Evolution of Consciousness

Corey J. Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini

- Animal Consciousness

Sean Allen-Hermanson

- Robot Consciousness

Jonathan Waskan

- Consciousness and Dreams: From Self-Simulation to the Simulation of a Social World

Jennifer M. Windt

- Meditation and Consciousness: Can we Experience Experience as Broken?

Jake H. Davis

- Consciousness and End-of-Life Ethical Issues

Adina Roskies

- Consciousness and Experimental Philosophy

Chad Gonnerman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rocco J. Gennaro is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy Department Chairperson at the University of Southern Indiana. Two of his more recent books are The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts (2012) and Consciousness (Routledge, 2017). He is also editor of Disturbed Consciousness: New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness (2015) and has research interests in metaphysics, early modern history of philosophy, and neuroethics.