Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (490 pages)
- SUNY Series in Philosophy Series .
- SUNY Series in Philosophy Series .
Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind -- Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Key to Abbreviations of Whitehead's Works -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting the Stage -- 1: Process Thought as a Heuristic for Investigating Consciousness -- 2: Whitehead as a Neglected Figure of Twentieth-Century Philosophy -- 3: Consciousness as a Topic of Investigation in Western Thought -- 4: Whitehead's Unique Approach to the Topic of Consciousness -- Part II: Psychology and Philosophy of Mind -- 5: Consciousness as Subjective Form: Whitehead's Nonreductionist Naturalism -- 6: The Interpretation and Integrationof the Literature on Consciousnessfrom a Process Perspective -- 7: Windows on Nonhuman Minds -- Part III: From Metaphysics to (Neuro)Science (and Back Again) -- 8: Panexperientialism, Quantum Theory, and Neuroplasticity -- 9: The Evolution of Consciousness -- 10: The Carrier Theory of Causation -- Part IV: Clinical Applications: Consciousness as Process -- 11: The Microgenetic Revolution in Contemporary Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics -- 12: From Coma to Consciousness: Recovery and the Process of Differentiation -- 13: Consciousness and Rationality from a Process Perspective -- Part V: History (and Future?) of Philosophy -- 14: Consciousness, Memory, and Recollection According to Whitehead -- 15: Consciousness and Causation inWhitehead's Phenomenology of Becoming -- Contributors -- Index.
Opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies.