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List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Susan Schneider and Max Velmans Part I Problems of Consciousness 1. A brief history of the scientific approach to the study of consciousness: Chris Frith (University College London) and Geraint Rees (University College London) 2. Philosophical problems of consciousness: Michael Tye (University of Texas, Austin) Part II The Domain of Consciousness Origins and Extent of Consciousness 3. The Development of Consciousness in Infants: Colwyn Trevarthen (University of Edinburgh) and Vasuvedi Reddy (University of Portsmouth) 4. Animal consciousness: Colin Allen (Indiana University) and Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado) 5. Rethinking the evolution of consciousness: Tom Polger (University of Cincinatti) 6. Machine consciousness: Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London) Some Varieties of Conscious Experience 7. Normal and abnormal states of consciousness: J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School) 8. Consciousness and emotion: Jaak Panksepp (Bowling Green State University) 9. Clinical pathologies and unusual experiences: Richard P. Bentall (University of Manchester ) 10. Altered states of consciousness: drug induced states: Edward F. Pace-Schott (Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School) 11. Meditation: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moore¿s) 12. Mystical Experience: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moore¿s) Breakdowns in the Unity of Consciousness 13. The case of blindsight: Lawrence Weiskrantz (University of Oxford) 14. Split-brain cases: Mary K. Colvin (Dartmouth College) and Michael S. Gazzaniga (Dartmouth College) 15. Philosophical psychopathology and self-consciousness: G. Lynn Stephens (University of Alabama) and George Graham (Wake Forest University) 16. Coming together: the unity of conscious experience: Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool) Part III Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness 17. The hard problem of consciousness: David Chalmers 18. The global workspace theory of consciousness: Bernard J. Baars (Neurosciences Institute) 19. The intermediate level theory of consciousness: Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina) 20. Representationalism about consciousness: William Seager (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and David Bourget (University of Toronto) 21. Higher-order theories of consciousness: Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland) 22. The information integration theory of consciousness: Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 23. Quantum mechanical theories of consciousness: Henry Stapp (University of California, Berkeley) 24. Daniel Dennett on the nature of consciousness: Susan Schneider 25. Biological naturalism: John Searle (University of California, Berkeley) 26. Mysterianism ¿ Mark Rowlands 27. Dualism, reductionism and reflexive monism: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London) 28. Naturalistic dualism: David Chalmers Part IV Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness 29. Anti-materialist arguments and influential replies: Joe Levine (Ohio State University) 30. Functionalism and qualia: Robert van Gulick 31. The knowledge argument: Torin Alter (University of Alabama) 32. The Causal efficacy of consciousness: Jaegwon Kim 33. The Neurophilosophy of consciousness: Pete Mandik (William Paterson University) 34. Type materialism for phenomenal consciousness: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) 35. Sensory and perceptual consciousness: Austen Clark (Wesleyen University) 36. Self-consciousness: Jose Bermudez (Washington University) 37. Consciousness and intentionality: George Graham (Wake Forest University), Terry Horgan and John Tienson Part V Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness 38. Attention and consciousness: Nilli Lavie (University College London) 39. Inattentional blindness, change blindness and consciousness: Alva Noe (University of California, Berkeley) 40. Preconscious processing: Phil Merikle (University of Waterloo) 41. Implicit and explicit memory and learning: John Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley), Jennifer Dorfman (Northwestern University), and Lillian Park (University of California, Berkeley) 42. Consciousness of action: Mark Jeannerod (Institut des Sciences Cognitives ) Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness 43. Methodologies for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness: Geraint Rees (University College London) & Chris Frith (University College London) 44. A neurobiological framework for consciousness: Frances Crick (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) & Christoph Koch (California Institute of Technology) 45. A theory of microconsciousness: Semir Zeki (University College London) 46. Global disorders of consciousness: Nicholas D. Schiff, M.D. (Weill Medical College of Cornell University) 47. Large scale temporal coordination of cortical activity as a prerequisite for conscious experience: Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main) 48. Duplex vision: separate cortical pathways for conscious perception and the control of action: Melvyn A. Goodale (University of Western Ontario) 49. Consciousness and anesthesia: John F. Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley) & Randall C. Cork (Louisiana State University Medical Center) 50. Neural dominance, neural deference, and sensorimotor dynamics: Susan Hurley (All Souls College, Oxford) 51. Benjamin Libet¿s work on the neuroscience of free will: William P. Banks (Pomona College) & Susan Pockett (University of Auckland) First Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 52. Cognition, fringe consciousness, and the legacy of William James: Bruce Mangan (University of California, Berkeley) 53. Phenomenological approaches to consciousness: Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida) 54. Eastern methods for investigating mind and consciousness: Jonathan Shear (Virginia Commonwealth University) 55. An epistemology for the study of consciousness: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London) Appendix ¿ List of Useful Web Resources for the Study of Consciousness Author Index Index
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Consciousness.