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Susan Schneider - The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness - 9780470674062 - V9780470674062
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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

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Description for The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness Hardback. 2nd Ed. Num Pages: 832 pages, NO. BIC Classification: HP. .

Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

  • Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field
  • Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more
  • Covers a wide array of topics that include the origins and extent of consciousness, various consciousness experiences such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness
  • Presents 54 peer-reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470674062
SKU
V9780470674062
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a faculty member in the technology and ethics group at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work is on the nature of the self and mind, which she examines through issues in philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence (A.I.), metaphysics, astrobiology, epistemology, and neuroscience. She is the author of The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011) and Science Fiction and Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), and was responsible for the volume's philosophical content. Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been involved in consciousness studies for over 40 years. He has over 100 publications on this topic including Understanding Consciousness (2000/2009) and Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (2017). He is a co-founder and former Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and was responsible for the volume's scientific content.

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