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Conversations on Consciousness Susan Blackmore

Conversations on Consciousness By Susan Blackmore

Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore


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Summary

Explores the questions on the nature of brains, minds, and consciousness, through twenty interviews with some of the best-known personalities from science and philosophy. This collection includes interviews with Daniel Dennett, John Searle, David Chalmers, Francis Crick, V Ramachandran, Roger Penrose, Richard Gregory, and Susan Greenfield.

Conversations on Consciousness Summary

Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore

This is a delightful collection of interviews with 20 famous names in the study of consciousness. Sue Blackmore, herself a writer on consciousness, engages in conversation with each of these very different personalities, drawing out their views on the nature of the mind, on how what goes on in the network of neurons in the brain produces our vivid experiences, and whether we have free will. The collection includes interviews with such well-known names as Daniel Dennett, John Searle, David Chalmers, Francis Crick (the last interview he gave), V. Ramachandran, Roger Penrose, Richard Gregory, and Susan Greenfield. The interviews are conducted in an informal but focused style, bringing out the personality of each interviewee, and giving the reader a very accessible and readable introduction to their ideas, and to the central scientific and philosophical challenges involved in understanding the nature of mind and consciousness.

Conversations on Consciousness Reviews

A great read for someone studying, or itnerested in the study of consciousness. BBC Mindgames Blackmore herself comes across as spunky and clever, and the probing follow-up questions she occasionally asks prevent the interviews from seeming too repetitive and boring. Nature the book provides a very efficient overview of contemporary strands of thinking about its subject. Steven Poole, The Guardian

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bernard Baars; 3. Ned Block; 4. David Chalmers; 5. The Churchlands; 6. Francis Crick; 7. Daniel Dennett; 8. Susan Greenfield; 9. Richard Gregory; 10. Stuart Hameroff; 11. Christof Koch; 12. Stephen LaBerge; 13. Thomas Metzinger; 14. Roger Penrose; 15. Kevin O'Regan; 16. Vilayanur Ramachandran; 17. John Searle; 18. Petra Stoerig; 19. Francisco Varela; 20. Max Velmans; 21. Daniel Wegner; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Additional information

GOR003126007
9780192806222
019280622X
Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2006-02-01
288
N/A
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