Conversations on Consciousness What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human

Name: Conversations on Consciousness What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
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ISBN: 9780195179590

ISBN-10: 0195179595

ISBN-13: 9780195179590

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Authors: Susan Blackmore

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In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the concept of consciousness. The interviewees, ranging from major philosophers to renowned scientists, talk candidly with Blackmore about some of the key philosophical issues confronting us in a series of conversations that are revealing, insightful, and stimulating. They ruminate on the nature of consciousness (is it something apart from the brain?) and discuss if it is even possible to understand the human mind. Some of these thinkers say no, but most believe that we will pierce the mystery…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.20" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Bernard Baars


Ned Block


David Chalmers


Patricia and Paul Churchland


Francis Crick


Daniel Dennett


Susan Greenfield


Richard Gregory


Stuart Hameroff


Christof Koch


Stephen LaBerge


Thomas Metzinger


Kevin O'Regan


Roger Penrose


Vilayanur Ramachandran


John Searle


Petra Stoerig


Francisco Varela


Max Velmans


Daniel Wegner


Glossary


Index