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Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate about the nature of consciousness and whether a scientific understanding of it is possible.
After an initial overview of the status and prospects of physicalism in the face of the problem of consciousness, William Seager explores key themes from Descartes - the founder of the modern problem of consciousness. He then turns to the most important theories of consciousness:
- identity theories and the generation problem
- higher-order thought theories of consciousness
- self-representational theories of consciousness
- Daniel Dennetts theory of consciousness
- attention-based theories of consciousness
- representational theories of consciousness
- conscious intentionality
- panpsychism
- neutral monism.
Thoroughly revised and expanded throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on animal consciousness, reflexive consciousness, combinatorial forms of panpsychism and neutral monism, as well as a significant new chapter on physicalism, emergence and consciousness.
The books broad scope, depth of coverage and focus on key philosophical positions and arguments make it an indispensable text for those teaching or studying philosophy of mind and psychology. It is also an excellent resource for those working in related fields such as cognitive science and the neuroscience of consciousness.
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Second edition published 2016
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2016 William Seager
The right of William Seager to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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First edition published by Routledge 1999
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seager, William, 1952
Theories of consciousness : an introduction and assessment/by William Seager.
2nd Edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Consciousness. 2. Mind and body. I. Title.
B808.9.S4 2016
2015030515 128.2dc23
ISBN: 978-0-415-83408-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-83409-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-48558-3 (ebk)
Typeset in Franklin Gothic
by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Paignton, UK
This new edition includes six new chapters as well as updates and corrections within the original chapters. The new is also new. It attempts to set some recent philosophy of mind in the context of an old theory, neutral monism, that deserves more attention and which opens a new way of looking at the problem of consciousness.
acquired representations
activation function
aggregation
AIR theory
Aladdin
Alex (the parrot)
analytic truths
animism
anthropic principle
anti-Cartesian catastrophe
antimatter
aphasia
armadillo
aspect essentialism
astronauts
asymmetrical counterfactual dependence
automatism
B-qualia
behaviourism
Bell inequality
Bell-correlations
bio-functionalism
biosemantics
bitterness
blind-touch
black hole
blindness
blindsight
bluff reef
Bourne, Ansel
brain in a vat
brute facts
Cartesian Theatre
categorization
cerebral celebrity
change blindness
chemistry
coffee
combination problem
computationalism
conceptual content
conceptualization
connectionism
cosmology
counterfeits
de-counterfactualization
deferential monadic panpsychism (DMP)
determinism
dispositional HOT theory
dissociative identity disorder
down-ness
dreaming
echo-location
eliminativism
embodiment
emergence
epiphenomenalism
epistemological dependence
externalism
fact-awareness
folk psychology
fovea
functionalism
G.Y. (patient)
gazelle
generation problem
global supervenience
grouse
hallucination
Hebbian learning
hydrocephalus
identity theory
imagination
incorrigibility
individualism
ineffability
inexplicability
instrumentalism
insulin
intensionality
intentionality
internalism
interpretability
intrinsicness
introspection
inverted spectrum
inverted vision
lobsters
Mach, Ernst
macula
materialism
mathematization
maximality
memory
Mentalese
microtubules
mind-dust
monads
money
monkeys
moods
Mller-Lyer illusion
mysterianism
narrow content
naturalistic dualism
Necker cube
neural network
neuroscience
Newton
non-conceptual content
non-standard models
objective reality
obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
olfaction
ontological dependence
opponency (vision)
Orwellian revision
pain
pandemonium
PANIC theory
panpsychism
Paris
parrots
Pauli, W
phantom limb
phenomenal contribution principle (PC)
phenomenality
phenylthiourea
philosophical grammar
phlogiston
physicalism
Pickering
pineal gland
Plato
pleasure
pregnancy
privileged access
proprioception
pseudo-problem
PTU
persistent vegetative state (PVS)
qualia
quantum eraser
rationality
real patterns
realism
reductionism
reflexive consciousness
representation
representationa
representational theory
representationss
retina
right-side-upness
robots
Russellian Monism
saccharin
scepticism
secretions (consciousness as)
self-consciousness
self-representation
sensations
sense-data
shneurons
simulation
sleepwalkers
solipsism
speedometers
split-brain
standard models
strawberries
sunburn
superluminal signals
superposition
supervenience
Swampman
systemic representation
taste-space
theory-ladenness
theory-theory
thermodynamics
thing-awareness
transitivity principle (TP)
Twin-Earth
two-bitser
two-slit experiment
upside-downness
Valspar
vector coding
vector space
Vegemite
vehicle (of representation)
verificationism
vervet monkey
virtual reality
water
Wide Intrinsicality View (WIV)
Working-memory
Zllner illusion
zombies
The acknowledgements from the first edition are repeated here (with updated chapter numbers):
Most of this book was written while on a sabbatical leave from the University of Toronto and my thanks go to my university for continuing to support the notion of a research leave.
Some of the book has appeared before. A small part of as well.
I would like to thank the many people who have discussed this material with me. My students at the University of Toronto have been an invaluable help. The philosophers at Dalhousie University have suffered over the years through almost the whole manuscript, always providing an enthusiastically critical outlook on the work. Early versions of was presented to the Toronto Cognitive Science Society in 1993. My thanks to the organizers and participants of all these events.
Finally, I would like most of all to thank Christine, Emma, Tessa and Ned for being there.
Acknowledgements for the second edition: was presented at a workshop organized by Hedda Hassel Mrch at the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, August 2013. I owe thanks to the organizers, participants and audiences of these workshops and conferences.
I would like to reiterate my thanks to everyone who helped me think about consciousness. I also gratefully acknowledge the research grants provided to me since the writing of the first edition from the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Tucson and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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