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Consciousness as a Scientific Concept - A Philosophy of Science Perspective (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Consciousness as a Scientific Concept - A Philosophy of Science Perspective (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in Brain and Mind, 5
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The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our
scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has
expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself
and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as
academic interest. Yet many problematic issues, identified in this
important new book, remain unresolved. Focusing on a series of
methodological difficulties swirling around consciousness research,
the contributors to this volume suggest that 'consciousness' is, in
fact, not a wholly viable scientific concept. Supporting this
'eliminativist' stance are assessments of the current theories and
methods of consciousness science in their own terms, as well as
applications of good scientific practice criteria from the
philosophy of science. For example, the work identifies the central
problem of the misuse of qualitative difference and dissociation
paradigms, often deployed to identify measures of consciousness. It
also examines the difficulties that attend the wide range of
experimental protocols used to operationalise consciousness-and the
implications this has on the findings of integrative approaches
across behavioural and neurophysiological research. The work also
explores the significant mismatch between the common intuitions
about the content of consciousness, that motivate much of the
current science, and the actual properties of the neural processes
underlying sensory and cognitive phenomena. Even as it makes the
negative eliminativist case, the strong empirical grounding in this
volume also allows positive characterisations to be made about the
products of the current science of consciousness, facilitating a
re-identification of target phenomena and valid research questions
for the mind sciences.
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