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Consciousness: An Introduction Paperback – 27 April 2018
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- ISBN-101138801313
- ISBN-13978-1138801318
- Edition3rd
- Publication date27 April 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- Print length618 pages
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Competent, entertaining and accessible. It covers an enormous range of topics from machine consciousness to altered states and secular spirituality. This new edition is probably the best introduction to the exploding field of consciousness studies.
Thomas Metzinger, Philosophisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Blackmore and Troscianko’s book remains the best introduction to consciousness on the market. The sheer breadth of literature that is reviewed and evaluated will not only satisfy the most enquiring of academic minds, but also succeeds in delivering a great deal of academic content in an enjoyable, readable and accessible style for any interested reader. It provides a comprehensive introduction to so many relevant features of consciousness, making it the go-to book for anyone interested in the field. Blackmore and Troscianko have managed what might have seemed impossible: they’ve made a great book even greater.
Guy Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Consciousness Studies, University of the West of England, UK
Revised, updated, and supplemented with new perspectives, this third edition is a friendly and sure-footed guide through the dense forest of consciousness studies. Packing their text with activities, practice exercises, and quotations, the authors not only inform their readers about the science and philosophy of consciousness, but also teach them how to think about the topic for themselves. A superb introduction to a fascinating field.
Keith Frankish, Honorary Reader in Philosophy, The University of Sheffield, UK
What is consciousness, and how can it arise within the natural order? This remarkable book offers concise, colourful, and provocative windows into nearly every corner of this complex, multi-disciplinary debate. The result is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to one of the most conceptually puzzling and scientifically challenging questions of our time.
Andy Clark FBA, FRSE, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh, UK
The Third Edition of Consciousness is choc a bloc with ideas, data and literary references. I am enjoying reading it from cover to cover.
Allan Hobson, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
For anyone interested in plunging into the murky but entrancing depths of the psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience of consciousness, B&W’s book is the perfect place to start. Moreover, it is a stimulating and challenging resource for specialists in the field.
Nick Chater, American Journal of Psychology
About the Author
Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, TED lecturer, and writer researching consciousness, memes, meditation, and anomalous experiences, and is Visiting Professor in Psychology at the University of Plymouth. The Meme Machine (1999) has been translated into 16 languages; more recent books include Zen and the Art of Consciousness (2011) and Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-BodyExperiences (2017).
Emily T. Troscianko is a writer and researcher interested in mental health, readers’ responses to literature, and how the two might be linked – as well as what both have to do with human consciousness. She is a Research Associate at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford, writes the blog 'A Hunger Artist' for Psychology Today, and has published a monograph, Kafka’s Cognitive Realism (2014), exploring the strange phenomenon we call the ‘Kafkaesque’.
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- Language : English
- Paperback : 618 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1138801313
- ISBN-13 : 978-1138801318
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My layman take is that a lot of what we assume is correct may well be not quite right, various degrees of possible illusion.are carefully and objectively examined. For example, are there two kinds of stuff, physical and other, and is consciousness connected with the other kind, but consciousness seems to need the physical machinery. What we interpret as seen can easily be shown to be incorrect in some cases. The sense of self and free will seems to disappear on close examination.
The authors warn twice that you may be disturbed by the picture of yourself that starts emerging.
After two months of reading and knowing that this book will be repeatedly referenced in the future there is a strange feeling that although consciousness certainly has not been 'put to bed' it is no longer such a mystery, no longer a matter of burning significance. My currently favourite quote by Clifford Geertz seems to fit in nicely, 'Man is an animal, suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun'.
Now where did I put that nice bottle of wine?
Probably, the audience target is people who have not a philosophical background, but who want to do research on Consciousness. In fact, comparison between theories and long list of names, will galvanize your "source" library - the bibliography is incredible.
So far, one of the best books on Consciousness I have ever read.