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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823582003321

Titolo

Process approaches to consciousness in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2942-8

1-4416-3542-4

Descrizione fisica

xi, 472 p. : ill

Collana

Suny series in philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

WeberMichel <1963->

WeekesAnderson <1960->

Disciplina

126

Soggetti

Consciousness

Neurosciences

Philosophy of mind

Process philosophy

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes -- Pt. I: Introductory essays -- Process thought as a heuristic for investigating consciousness / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes -- Whitehead as a neglected figure of 20th century philosophy / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes -- Consciousness as a topic of investigation in western thought / Anderson Weekes -- Whitehead's unique approach to the topic of consciousness / Anderson Weekes -- Pt. II: Psychology and philosophy of mind -- Consciousness as subjective form : Whitehead's nonreductionist naturalism / David Ray Griffin -- The interpretation and integration of the literature on consciousness from a process perspective / Michael W. Katzko -- Windows on nonhuman minds / Donald R. Griffin -- Pt. III: From metaphysics to (neuro-)science (and back again) -- Panexperientialism, quantum theory, and neuroplasticity / George W. Shields -- The evolution of consciousness / Max Velmans -- The carrier theory of causation / Gregg H. Rosenberg -- Pt. IV: Clinical applications: consciousness as process -- The



microgenetic revolution in contemporary neuropsychology and neurolinguistics / Maria Pachalska and Bruce Duncan MacQueen -- From come to consciousness : recovery and the process of differentiation / Avraham Schweiger, Michael Frost, and Ofer Keren -- Consciousness and rationality from a process perspective / Michel Weber -- Pt. V: History (and future) of philosophy -- Consciousness, memory, and recollection according to Whitehead / Xavier Verley -- Consciousness and causation in Whitehead's phenomenology of becoming / Anderson Weekes.

Sommario/riassunto

Opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies.