Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and - Philosophy of Min

Informationen zum Autor Michel Weber is Director of the Center for Philosophical Practice "Chromatiques whiteheadiennes," Brussels, and author of Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics . Anderson Weekes is an independent scholar and an educational consultant in New York. Klappentext Opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. This collection opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. Approaching consciousness from diverse disciplinary perspectives-philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, neuropathology, psychotherapy, biology, animal ethology, and physics-the contributors offer empirical and philosophical support for a model of consciousness inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). Whitehead's model is developed in ways he could not have anticipated to show how it can advance current debates beyond well-known sticking points. This has trenchant consequences for epistemology and suggests fresh and promising new perspectives on such topics as the mind-body problem, the neurobiology of consciousness, animal consciousness, the evolution of consciousness, panpsychism, the unity of consciousness, epiphenomenalism, free will, and causation.

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• Authors: Michel (EDT)/ Weekes Weber, Michel Weekes Weber
• Assisted by: Michel Weber (Editor), Weber Michel (Editor), Anderson Weekes (Editor), Weekes Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2011
• EAN: 9781438429403
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-2940-3
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (Pap; SUNY Series in Philosophy (Pap; SUNY series in Philosophy; Suny Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Conscious & unconscious, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge