Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau

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Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau

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A comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies, this text starts with the "hard problem" of the philosophical relation to mind and matter, and proceeds to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanism, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics.

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Introducing Consciousness by David Papineau

Provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. Along the way readers will be introduced zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. This is the perfect introduction for anybody who wants to know all about consciousness but doesn't know where to start.

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Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, David Papineau Theory and Meaning (Clarendon 1979), Reality and Representation (Blackwell 1987), Philosophical Naturalism (Blackwell 1993), The Philosophy of Science (Oxford Readings in Philosophy 1996), and The Origins of Reason (Clarendon 2003) are only a few of his works.

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ISBN 13 9781840461152
ISBN 10 1840461152
Title Introducing Consciousness
Author David Papineau
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Icon Books
Year published 2000-04-01
Number of pages 176
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