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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405120197&site=1 The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness Edited by: Max Velmans (University of London) and Susan Schneider (University of Pennsylvania) Reviews "This outstanding collection of new essays, many by major figures, covers virtually every important topic in current research on consciousness, often in illuminating depth. Nobody interested in cur... More reviews Description With fifty-five peer reviewed chapters written by the leading authors in the field, The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness is the most extensive and comprehensive survey of the study of consciousness available today. * Provides a variety of philosophical and scientific perspectives that create a breadth of understanding of the topic * Topics include the origins and extent of consciousness, different consciousness experiences, such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness TopTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Susan Schneider (University of Pennsylvania) and Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London) Part I: Problems of Consciousness: 1. A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness: Chris Frith (University College London) and Geraint Rees (University College London) 2. Philosophical Problems of Consciousness: Michael Tye (University of Texas, Austin) Part II: The Domain of Consciousness: Origins and Extent of Consciousness: 3. Consciousness in Infants: Colwyn Trevarthen (University of Edinburgh) and Vasuvedi Reddy (University of Portsmouth) 4. Animal Consciousness: Colin Allen (Indiana University) and Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado) 5. Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness: Thomas Polger (University of Cincinatti) 6. Machine Consciousness: Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London) Some Varieties of Conscious Experience: 7. Normal and Abnormal States of Consciousness: J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School) 8. Affective Consciouness: Jaak Panksepp (Washington State University) 9. Clinical Oathologies and Unusual Experiences: Richard P. Bentall (University of Manchester) 10. Altered States of Consciousness: Drug Induced States: Edward F. Pace-Schott (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School) 11. Meditation: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moores University) 12. Mystical Experience: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moores University) Breakdowns and the Unity of Consciousness: 13. The Case of Blindsight: Lawrence Weiskrantz (University of Oxford) 14. Split-Brain Cases: Mary K. Colvin (Dartmouth College) and Michael S. Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara) 15. Philosophical Psychopathology and Self-Consciousness: G. Lynn Stephens (University of Alabama) and George Graham (Wake Forest University) 16. Coming Together: the Unity of Conscious Experience: Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool) Part III: Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness: 17. The Hard Problem of Consciousness: David Chalmers (Australian National University) 18. The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Bernard J. Baars (Neurosciences Institute, San Diego) 19. The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness: Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina) 20. Representationalism about Consciousness: William Seager (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and David Bourget (University of Toronto) 21. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland) 22. The Information Integration Theory of Consciousness: Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 23. Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness: Henry Stapp (University of California, Berkeley) 24. Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness: Susan Schneider (University of Pennsylvania) 25. Biological Naturalism: John Searle (University of California, Berkeley) 26. Mysterianism: Mark Rowlands (University of Hertfordshire) 27. Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London) 28. Naturalistic Dualism: David Chalmers (Australian National University) Part IV: Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness: 29. Anti-materialist Arguments and Influential Replies: Joe Levine (Ohio State University) 30. Functionalism and Qualia: Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University) 31. The Knowledge Argument: Torin Alter (University of Alabama) 32. The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University) 33. The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness: Pete Mandik (William Paterson University) 34. Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) 35. Sensory and Perceptual Consciousness: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut) 36. Self-Consciousness: José Luis Bermúdez (Washington University) 37. Consciousness and Intentionality: George Graham (Wake Forest University), Terry Horgan (University of Arizona), and John Tienson (University of Memphis) Part V: Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness: Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness: 38. Attention and Consciousness: Nilli Lavie (University College London) 39. Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness and Consciousness: Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley) 40. Preconscious Processing: Phil Merikle (University of Waterloo) 41. Implicit and Explicit Memory and Learning: John Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley), Jennifer Dorfman (Northwestern University), and Lillian Park (Rotman Research Institute, Toronto) 42. Consciousness of Action: Marc Jeannerod (Claude Bernard University, Lyon) Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness: 43. Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Geraint Rees (University College London) and Chris Frith (University College London) 44. A Neurobiological Framework for Consciousness: Francis Crick (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) and Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology) 45. A Theory of Micro-consciousness: Semir Zeki (University College London) 46. Global Disorders of Consciousness: Nicholas D. Schiff (Weill Medical College, Cornell University) 47. Large-Scale Temporal Coordination of Cortical Activity as a Prerequisite for Conscious Experience: Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main) 48. Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action: Melvyn A. Goodale (University of Western Ontario) 49. Consciousness and Anesthesia: John F. Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley) and Randall C. Cork (Louisiana State University Medical Center) 50. Neural Dominance, Neural Deference, and Sensorimotor Dynamics: Susan Hurley (All Souls College, Oxford) 51. Benjamin Libet's Work on the Neuroscience of Free Will: William P. Banks (Pomona College) and Susan Pockett (University of Auckland) First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness: 52. Cognition, Fringe Consciousness, and the Legacy of William James: Bruce Mangan (University of California, Berkeley) 53. Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness: Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida) 54. Eastern Methods for Investigating Mind and Consciousness: Jonathan Shear (Virginia Commonwealth University) 55. An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London) Appendix: List of Useful Web Resources in Consciousness Studies Name Index Subject Index

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