| Title & Author | Abstract | |
|---|---|---|
| 7(33) | 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. |
| 7(42) | 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. |
| 8(04) | CONSCIOUSNESS LOCATED: YOU'LL WONDER WHERE THE YELLOW WENT
Book Review of Hardcastle on Locating-Consciousness Joseph Levine Professor of Philosophy North Carolina State University Box 8103, Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 Joe_Levine@NCSU.EDU |
Abstract:
I identify two morals in Hardcastle's book (1995). The
main moral is that scientific investigation can provide an
illuminating, explanatory theory of conscious experience. The
subsidiary one is that the best way for such investigation to
proceed is to combine psychological and neurophysiological
research, incorporating more dynamical models and relying less on
strictly classical computational models. I focus my critical
attention on the main moral, but also briefly discuss the
subsidiary one.
Keywords: binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory, priming, qualia. |
| 8(07) | GETTING THE PHILOSOPHY RIGHT
Reply to Laakso on Locating Consciousness Valerie Gray Hardcastle Department of Philosophy Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126 http://mind.phil.vt.edu valerie@vt.edu |
Abstract:
Laakso (1997) criticizes me for sliding between being a
functionalist and an identity theorist with respect to
consciousness. However, he basis his claims on an incomplete
understanding of functionalism and his arguments confuse identity
with necessary and sufficient conditions. Here I outline these
errors as well as state as clearly as I can that I am an identity
theorist through and through.
Keywords: binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory, priming, qualia. |
| 8(08) | WHY SCIENCE IS IMPORTANT FOR PHILOSOPHY
Reply to Levine on Locating Consciousness Valerie Gray Hardcastle Department of Philosophy Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126 http://mind.phil.vt.edu valerie@vt.edu |
Abstract:
Levine (1997) claims that Locating Consciousness (1995)
does not seriously address the problem of the explanatory gap;
instead it merely provides lots of data. Here I argue that,
contrary to the intuitions of some philosophers, the best remedy
for our gaps in explanation and understanding is in fact through
empirical investigation.
Keywords: binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory, priming, qualia. |
| 8(12) | STILL SEEKING CONSCIOUSNESS
Book Review of Hardcastle on Locating-Consciousness Jay L. Garfield Department of Philosophy University of Tasmania G.P.O. Box 252-41 Hobart, Tasmania 7001 Australia http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/humsoc/philosophy/Jay_Garfield.html jay.garfield@utas.edu.au |
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.
Keywords: binding, consciousness, dynamical system, memory, priming, qualia. |