Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems) (Complex Adaptive Systems Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262581817 ISBN 13: 9780262581813

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1999

Synopsis

Can there be a science of consciousness? This issue has been the focus of three landmark conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first two conferences and books have become touchstones for the field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the third conference.

Can there be a science of consciousness? This issue has been the focus of three landmark conferences sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first two conferences and books have become touchstones for the field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the third conference. It showcases recent progress in this maturing field by researchers from philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, phenomenology, and physics. It is divided into nine sections: the explanatory gap, color, neural correlates of consciousness, vision, emotion, the evolution and function of consciousness, physical reality, the timing of conscious experience, and phenomenology. Each section is preceded by an overview and commentary by the editors.

Contributors
Dick J. Bierman, Jeffrey Burgdorf, A. Graham Cairns-Smith, William H. Calvin, Christian de Quincey, Frank H. Durgin, Vittorio Gallese, Elizabeth L. Glisky, Melvyn A. Goodale, Richard L. Gregory, Scott Hagan, C. Larry Hardin, C. A. Heywood, Masayuki Hirafuji, Nicholas Humphrey, Harry T. Hunt, Piet Hut, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Robert W. Kentridge, Stanley A. Klein, Charles D. Laughlin, Joseph Levine, Lianggang Lou, Shimon Malin, A. David Milner, Steven Mithen, Martine Nida-Rumelin, Stephen Palmer, Jaak Panksepp, Dean Radin, Steven Z. Rapcsak, Sheryl L. Reminger, Antti Revonsuo, Gregg H. Rosenberg, Yves Rossetti, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Jonathan Shear, Galen Strawson, Robert Van Gulick, Frances Vaughan, Franz X. Vollenweider, B. Alan Wallace, Douglas F. Watt, Larry Weiskrantz, Fred A. Wolf, Kunio Yasue, Arthur Zajonc

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart R. Hameroff is Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology; Alfred W. Kaszniak is Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry; and David J. Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, all at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0262581817
• ISBN 13: 9780262581813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Hameroff Stuart R., Kaszniak Alfred W., Chalmers David J.