Aarre Laakso (1996) Has Hardcastle Located Consciousness?
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Psycoloquy 7(42): Has Hardcastle Located Consciousness?
HAS HARDCASTLE LOCATED CONSCIOUSNESS?
Book Review of Hardcastle on Locating-Consciousness
Aarre Laakso
Department of Philosophy
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0119
La Jolla, CA 92093
http://aarre.ucsd.edu
aarre@ucsd.edu
Abstract
Valerie Hardcastle's book, Locating Consciousness,
presents a novel hypothesis about the physiological location of
consciousness in the human brain. However, it fails to take a stand
on the ontological status of consciousness, and even wavers back
and forth between an identity theory of psychophysical relations
and a functional theory.
Keywords
binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory,
priming, qualia.
References
- Block, N. (1978/1980). Troubles with Functionalism. In N. Block (Ed.), Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, pp. 268-305. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Hardcastle, V. G. (1995). Locating Consciousness. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press.
- Hardcastle, V. G. (1996). Precis of: Locating Consciousness. PSYCOLOQUY 7(33) locating-consciousness.1.hardcastle.
- Shoemaker, S. (1975). Functionalism and Qualia. Philosophical Studies, 27, 291-315.
- van Gelder, T. (1993). What might cognition be if not computation? Indiana: Indiana University Cognitive Science Research Report 75.