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    Category: Consciousness Studies

    Consciousness - A Very Short Introduction

    Consciousness - A Very Short Introduction

    Author: Susan Blackmore
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    A volume in the OUP series 'Very Short Introductions' which in this case is an abridged version of the author's 2003 textbook already reviewed. Most…… Read More »
    How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?

    How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?

    Author: Max Velmans
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to the central question of conscious experience and its putative downward causative effect on brains.…… Read More »
    Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying

    Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying

    Author: Francisco J Varela
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    This book has been on my shelves for far too long, long enough for the editor and narrator to have passed on! It represents a…… Read More »
    A Mind so Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

    A Mind so Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

    Author: Merlin Donald
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    This is a book that takes on what the author calls the Hardliners who profess the irrelevance of the conscious mind and the illusory nature…… Read More »
    Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness

    Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness

    Author: Max Velmans
    Reviewer: Jennifer Altman
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    Consciousness is a beautiful but slippery fish. Try to catch it and it retreats into the shadows among the reeds. How can we analyse something…… Read More »
    DARK NIGHT, EARLY DAWN

    DARK NIGHT, EARLY DAWN

    Author: Christopher M. Bache
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Consciousness Studies
    With a foreword by Stanislav Grof and a glowing endorsement from Richard Tarnas ('the most important book that I have read in recent years'), this…… Read More »

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