The unity of consciousness
By: Tim Bayne
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780199215386
Subjects: Consciousness
Description: Draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to show that consciousness is unified.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations. The phenomenal field ; Phenomenal unity : mereology ; Phenomenal unity : closure; title: Consciousness unified?. Motivating the unity thesis ; How to evaluate the unity thesis ; Fragments of consciousness? ; Anosognosia, schizophrenia, and multiplicity ; Hypnosis ; The split-brain syndrome; title: Implications. The quilt of consciousness ; The body ; The self.