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Author: Antti Revonsuo (University of Turku, Finland)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 17.40cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781841697260
ISBN 10: 1841697265
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 17 December 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
With Consciousness: the Science of Subjectivity Antti Revonsuo has written a wonderfully clear, very well-organized and insightful introduction to the philosophical and empirical study of consciousness. ... He employs a crystal clear language and organizes his paragraphs and introduction of very diverse philosophical and empirical theories in an explanatory order. The shortness of the paragraphs makes it easy to digest new information. This is further aided by the short summaries and enumeration of discussion questions at the end of each chapter and the glossary at the end of the book. All of this makes this an excellent introduction in the study of subjectivity for the beginning student, but equally so for the conference participants in the big interdisciplinary conferences on consciousness. - Fauve Lybaert, University of Leuven, in Metapsychology Online Reviews Everybody talks about consciousness, but hardly anyone has written a textbook about it that could be used as the basis for a survey course. Revonsuo's book closes that gap. - John F. Kihlstrom, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley This book provides a major new discussion of consciousness, suitable for a wide range of readers. It is written in an admirably clear and scholarly way, and covers a wide range of issues thrown up by recent philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific research on consciousness. It would be excellent as a primary text for many introductory courses on consciousness, and I think this book will quickly become a major text in the area. - Steve Torrance, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex Revonsuo's book is very well organized and as such offers a highly systematic approach to what is often a chaotic assembly of conflicting ideas. Students will particularly like the range and the inclusion of chapters on altered states, hypnosis and meditation, etc., particularly as some of this is the author's specialty. - Guy Saunders, Department of Psychology, University of the West of England a
Author Information
Antti Revonsuo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skovde, Sweden, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Turku, Finland. He has been conducting research on consciousness since the early 1990s and has directed an undergraduate degree programme on consciousness studies since 1997. He is best known for his evolutionary--psychological theory of dreaming, the threat-simulation theory.
