Max Velmans

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness

Selected works of Max Velmans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. With continuing contemporary relevance, and significant historical

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781032477114
• ISBN-10: 1032477113
• Artikelnr.: 69898954

Autorenporträt

Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. How To Define Consciousness-And How Not
To Define Consciousness 3. Consciousness, brain and the physical world 4.
An epistemology for the study of consciousness 5. Reflexive Monism:
psychophysical relations among mind, matter and consciousness 6. Extracts
from "Is Human Information Processing Conscious?" 7. Extracts from
"Consciousness from a First-person perspective" 8. How could conscious
experiences affect brains? 9. Conscious Agency and the
Preconscious/Unconscious Self 10. The evolution of consciousness 11. How to
Arrive at an Eastern Place from a Western Direction: Convergences and
Divergences among Samkya Dualism, Advaita Nondualism, the
Body-Mind-Consciousness Trident Model and Reflexive Monism Index