LEADER 04791nam 22006855 450 001 9910438329003321 005 20200919092338.0 010 $a1-283-93596-1 010 $a94-007-5173-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-5173-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000280481 035 $a(EBL)1030724 035 $a(OCoLC)820839670 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000800192 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11464624 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000800192 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10765663 035 $a(PQKB)11439110 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-5173-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1030724 035 $a(PPN)168340151 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000280481 100 $a20121026d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsciousness as a Scientific Concept$b[electronic resource] $eA Philosophy of Science Perspective /$fby Elizabeth Irvine 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Brain and Mind,$x1573-4536 ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-017-8213-X 311 $a94-007-5172-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: The Science of Consciousness -- 2. Subjective Measures of Consciousness -- 3. Measures of Consciousness and the Method of Qualitative Differences -- 4. Dissociations and Consciousness -- 5. Converging on Consciousness -- 6. Mechanisms of Consciousness and Scientific Kinds -- 7. Content-Matching: The case of Sensory memory and phenomenal consciousness -- 8. Content-Matching: The contents of what? -- 9. Scientific Eliminativism: Why there can be no Science of Consciousness -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix: Dice Game.-. 330 $aThe source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest. Yet many problematic issues, identified in this important new book, remain unresolved. Focusing on a series of methodological difficulties swirling around consciousness research, the contributors to this volume suggest that ?consciousness? is, in fact, not a wholly viable scientific concept.  Supporting this ?eliminativist? stance are assessments of the current theories and methods of consciousness science in their own terms, as well as applications of good scientific practice criteria from the philosophy of science. For example, the work identifies the central problem of the misuse of qualitative difference and dissociation paradigms, often deployed to identify measures of consciousness. It also examines the difficulties that attend the wide range of experimental protocols used to operationalise consciousness?and the implications this has on the findings of integrative approaches across behavioural and neurophysiological research. The work also explores the significant mismatch between the common intuitions about the content of consciousness, that motivate much of the current science, and the actual properties of the neural processes underlying sensory and cognitive phenomena. Even as it makes the negative eliminativist case, the strong empirical grounding in this volume also allows positive characterisations to be made about the products of the current science of consciousness, facilitating a re-identification of target phenomena and valid research questions for the mind sciences. 410 0$aStudies in Brain and Mind,$x1573-4536 ;$v5 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aPsychology?Methodology 606 $aPsychological measurement 606 $aPhilosophy of Mind$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E31000 606 $aPhilosophy of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 606 $aPsychological Methods/Evaluation$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20040 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aPhilosophy and science. 615 0$aPsychology?Methodology. 615 0$aPsychological measurement. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Mind. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aPsychological Methods/Evaluation. 676 $a128.2 700 $aIrvine$b Elizabeth$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01065178 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438329003321 996 $aConsciousness as a Scientific Concept$92543508 997 $aUNINA