Valerie Gray Hardcastle (1996) Locating Consciousness
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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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- TABLE OF CONTENTS of "Locating Consciousness":
- 1. Naturalism about Subjective Experience 2. The Limits of Theory 3. Consciousness as a Natural Kind 4. A Multiple Memory System Framework 5. Conscious Perception and Semantiv Memory 6. How Do We Get There from Here? 7. Martian Pain and the Problem of Absent Qualia 8. "Executive" Processing and Consciousness as Structure 9. The Moment of Consciousness