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Psycoloquy 7(33): Locating Consciousness

LOCATING CONSCIOUSNESS
[John Benjamins, 1995, xviii + 264 pp. ISBN:902725124/1556191847]
Precis of Hardcastle on locating-consciousness

Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126

valerie@vt.edu

Abstract

Our conscious minds are a wonderfully bizarre feature of us. This book aims to develop a scientific framework in which we can investigate and study consciousness as a perfectly natural and perfectly understandable phenomenon. In doing so, it also explores various skeptical charges made against this project, arguing for the most part that the skepticism is fueled by an ignorance of science in general and of how scientific explanations function in particular.

Keywords

binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory, priming, qualia.

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