The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010)

Edited by Jonathan Cole and Marcelo Dascal
Poole Hospital and University of Bournemouth / Tel-Aviv University
[Pragmatics & Cognition, 18:3]  2010.  vi, 148 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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ISBN | EUR 146.00 | USD 219.00
 
 

Table of Contents

Foreword
Why yet another debate on consciousness?
Marcelo Dascal
473–480
Introduction
The Origin of Consciousness: The background to the debate
Jonathan Cole
481–495
Core article
What is consciousness for?
Christopher Frith
497–551
Concluding discussion
Concluding discussion
Jonathan Cole, Marcelo Dascal, Shaun Gallagher and Christopher Frith
553–559
Invited contributions
Defining consciousness: The importance of non-reflective self-awareness
Shaun Gallagher
561–569
Large scale temporal coordination of cortical activity as prerequisite for conscious experience
Wolf Singer
570–583
Action and awareness of agency: Comments on Chris Frith
José Luis Bermúdez
576–588
Review articles
Tye on materialism without phenomenal concepts: Comments on Consciousness Revisited
Reviewed by Yaron M. Senderowicz
597–606
Consciousness and the feeling body
Reviewed by Julian Kiverstein
607–616

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