STILL SEEKING CONSCIOUSNESS
Book Review of Hardcastle on Locating-Consciousness

Abstract

In her book Locating Consciousness (1995), Hardcastle argues that an empirical, materialistic theory of consciousness can and will emerge from an interdisciplinary Cognitive Science, reviews a broad range of empirical and philosophical literature on consciousness, and defends a "multiple memory model" of consciousness. Hardcastle's defence of the general possibility of an empirical theory of consciousness is convincing, as is her argument for the necessity of a multilevel interdisciplinary approach. Her defence of the multiple memory model is suggestive but not entirely compelling.

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