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Overview"Rita Carter ponders the nature, origins and purpose of consciousness in this inquiry into the toughest problem facing modern science and philosophy. Building on the foundation of her book ""Mapping the Mind"", she considers whether consciousness is merely an illusion, a by-product of our brain's working, some as yet inexplicable feature or property of the material universe or - as the latest physics may suggest - the very fundament of reality. Little, she discovers, is as it first seems. Carter draws from a solid body of knowledge - empirical findings and theoretical hypotheses - about consciousness, much of it derived from recent discoveries about the brain. Her accessible narrative ranges widely over new ways of thinking about the subject and what direction new research is taking in 2002. Leading scholars from a range of perspectives provide topical essays that complement Carter's account. The book also discusses how traditional approaches - philosophical, scientific and experiential - might be brought together to create a more complete understanding of consciousness." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rita CarterPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 19.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.142kg ISBN: 9780520237377ISBN 10: 0520237374 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 01 September 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction Some (Possibly) Boring but Important Notes on Language 1. A Stream of Illusion 2. The Hard Problem 3. The Old Steam Whistle Test 4. Making Consciousation 5. Consciousness and the Brain 6. The Conscious Body 7. The Conscious Self 8. Fractured Consciousness 9. A Conscious Universe? References Further Reading Index Authors of sidebars: Igor Aleksander, Susan J. Blackmore, David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett, Andrew Duggins, Chris Frith, Jeffrey Gray, Stuart Hameroff, Nicholas Humphrey, J. Kevin O'Regan, Jaak Panksepp, David Rosenthal, Alwyn Scott, John Searle, John SkoylesReviews"""Through accounts of thought experiments and laboratory studies, Carter gives us a sense of how eerie consciousness really is. . . . Carter offers us a ghost story that also turns out to be a whodunit.""--""American Scientist" Through accounts of thought experiments and laboratory studies, Carter gives us a sense of how eerie consciousness really is. . . . Carter offers us a ghost story that also turns out to be a whodunit. -- American Scientist Author InformationRita Carter is a science writer whose work has appeared in, among other publications, The New York Times, Washington Post, New Scientist, and Daily Telegraph. She has twice been awarded the Medical Journalists' Association prize for outstanding contributions to medical journalism. Her first book, Mapping the Mind, was shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc science prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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