The Explicit Animal

A Defence of Human Consciousness
1999. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-312-22418-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tallis, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface to the 1993 Reprint Overture Losing Consciousness Biologising Consciousness I: Evolutionary Theories Biologising Consciousness II: The Casual Theory of Perception Appendix: The Language of Neuromythology with Special Reference to 'Information' Computerising Consciousness Emptying Consciousness: Functionalism Man, the Explicit Animal Recovering Consciousness Notes and References Index

Über Autor(innen)

RAYMOND TALLIS was recently described in as 'one of the most intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene'. Trained as a doctor at Oxford University and St. Thomas' Hospital, he has written extensively outside of medicine of the last 15 years. He has published short stories and poetry, and been recognized for his critiques of post-Saussurean thought, his reflections on art and science, and his discussions of the philosophy of mind. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Hull in 1997 for his contributions to literary scholarship. Since 1987 he has been Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester and a consultant physician in Health Care of the elderly in Salford.