Consciousness in contemporary science
By: edited by A.J. Marcel and E. Bisiach.
Contributors: Marcel, A. J.; Bisiach, E.
Series: Oxford science publications; Oxford science publications
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford  University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Consciousness.
Notes: "First published in paperback (with corrections) 1992"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: , yìshì, duh, um, and consciousness / Kathleen V. Wilkes; title: Quining qualia / Daniel C. Dennett; title: Consciousness, intrinsic intentionality, and self-understanding machines / Robert Van Gulick; title: The (haunted) brain and consciousness / Edoardo Bisiach; title: Phenomenal experience and functionalism / Anthony J. Marcel; title: What concept of consciousness? / Alan Allport; title: Some contributions of neuropsychology of vision and memory to the problem of consciousness / Lawrence Weiskrantz; title: Hypermnesia and insight / Matthew Hugh Erdelyi; title: Brain modularity : towards a philosophy of conscious experience / Michael S. Gazzaniga; title: Integrated field theory of consciousness / Marcel Kinsbourne; title: Consciousness in science and philosophy : conscience and con-science / Richard L. Gregory; title: Reduction and the neurobiological basis of consciousness / Patricia Smith Churchland; title: Information-processing models of consciousness : possibilities and problems / Tim Shallice; title: The control operations of consciousness / Carlo Umiltà.; title: (cont.)   A computational analysis of consciousness / P.N. Johnson-Laird; title: On changing one's mind : a possible function of consciousness / Keith Oatley.