BlindSpots
Author: Christian de Quincey
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Subtitled '21 good reasons to think before you talk', this is popular philosophy at its best, questioning cliches and generalities such as we create our…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Of Mind / Consciousness Studies
Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
This is a reprint of an issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies about illusionism – the view that phenomenal consciousness is an introspective illusion…… Read More »
Mechanisms in World and Mind
This book by a professor of physiology seeks to justify reductive physicalism as an explanatory hypothesis from the angle of perspective dualism, which distinguishes the…… Read More »
PLURALISM AND THE MIND
This impressive book provides a thorough overhaul of consciousness studies in both philosophical and psychological terms. Broadly speaking, it argues that conventional reductive materialism cannot…… Read More »
The Concepts of Consciousness
Authors: Dawn M McBride, J Scott Jordan
Reviewer: David Lorimer
This edited volume is an exercise in integrating an emerging science of consciousness. The main concepts in question include realism, representation, intentionality, information, control, memory…… Read More »
Consciousness and its Place in Nature
This volume, whose title echoes C.D. Broad's 'The Mind and its Place in Nature' of 80 years ago asks if physicalism entails panpsychism. It consists…… Read More »