Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered
scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar
and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque and strange.
This introduction to the problems posed by consciousness discusses
the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and
philosophy of mind of the past thirty years and presents an up to
date assessment of the issues and debates. The reader is first
introduced to the way that consciousness has been thought about in
the history of philosophy and psychology. The author then presents
an informal and largely non-technical account of the properties of
consciousness that are thought to be the most paradigmatic and
problematic. Recent scientific work on consciousness, from
neurophysiological studies of the brain and evolutionary studies of
the development of consciousness to computational theories of the
mind are then examined and the philosophical problems that these
accounts raise are systematically introduced. The final chapters of
the book consider more practical matters by addressing
self-deception, neuroses, the unconscious and notions of the self,
before concluding with an assessment of the future for psychology
and the philosophy of mind.
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