Susan Schneider - The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

1. Chapter 09
2. Chapter 10
3. Chapter 16
4. Chapter 23

1. Chapter 04
2. Chapter 07
3. Chapter 09
4. Chapter 10
5. Chapter 16
6. Chapter 17
7. Chapter 22
8. Chapter 25
9. Chapter 36
10. Chapter 38
11. Chapter 46
12. Chapter 47
13. Chapter 49
14. Chapter 53
15. Chapter 54

Second Edition

Edited by

Susan Schneider and Max Velmans

This edition first published 2017
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Title: The Blackwell companion to consciousness / edited by Susan Schneider and Max Velmans.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Igor Aleksander is an electrical engineer who has researched artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, and the analysis of conscious organisms. Author of fourteen books and over 200 papers, in 1987 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2000 was awarded a Lifetime Achievement medal for Informatics by the Institution for Electrical Engineering. He is currently Emeritus Professor in Neural Systems Engineering and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.

Colin Allen is Provost Professor at Indiana University, where he teaches in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine. He has published numerous books and articles on topics spanning animal cognition, artificial moral agents, and digital methods in philosophy and history of science. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and he is a member of a group of five faculty at Indiana University working on the evolution of human cognition and expertise with a multiyear grant from the Templeton Foundation.

Torin Alter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Alabama. He specializes in philosophy of mind and language, with a special interest in consciousness, intentionality, and the mindbody problem. He has also written on free will and personal identity

Harald Atmanspacher works at Collegium Helveticum, University and ETH Zurich. Until 2013 he was head of the theory group at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology at Freiburg, and is currently President of the Society for MindMatter Research, and editorinchief of the interdisciplinary international journal Mind and Matter. His fields of research are the theory of complex dynamical systems, conceptual and theoretical aspects of (algebraic) quantum theory, and mindmatter relations from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Bernard J. Baars PhD is an affiliate research Fellow of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California (www.nsi.edu). He is the author of A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (1988), In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind (1997), and editor of Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness (2003, with William P. Banks and James R. Newman). Baars was founding coeditor of the Elsevier/Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition with William P. Banks. Recent journal articles have appeared in Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Trends in Neurosciences.

Richard P. Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University and has previously held chairs at Manchester University and Bangor University. His research interests have mainly focused on psychosis. He has studied the cognitive and emotional mechanisms involved in psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and manic states, using methods ranging from psychological experiments and experience sampling to functional magnetic resonance imaging. He has published over 200 peerreview papers and a number of books including Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature (2003) and Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail (2009).

Jos Luis Bermdez is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the PhilosophyNeurosciencePsychology program at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of The Paradox of SelfConsciousness (1998), Thinking without Words (2003), and Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (2005).

Michel Bitbol is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, based at the Husserl Archive, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris (France). He successively received an MD, a PhD in physics, and a Habilitation in philosophy. After starting in scientific research, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrdinger and formulating a neokantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. He then studied the relations between the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of mind, working in close collaboration with Francisco Varela, and is currently developing a phenomenological critique of naturalist theories of consciousness.