CEP RELATED BOOKS

Understanding Consciousness
by Max Velmans

This book is excellent. There are lots of books on consciousness, but few which mix the philosophical,   psychological and neuroscientific, and even fewer which are written about an axe to grind... a lovely book... I'll be recommending it to everyone I see.

 Professor John Kihlstrom
 University of California at Berkeley, USA
Published by Routledge.ISBN : 0-415-22496-6
 
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The Nature of Consciousness
Edited by Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Guven Guzeldere
 
Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works in neuropsychology) on consciousness through 1996, and includes some forthcoming articles. Its extensive coverage strikes a balance between seminal works of the past few decades and the leading edge of philosophical research on consciousness.

Published by The MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-52210-1

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Towards a Theory of Consciousness
by David Chalmers

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Journey to the Centers of The Mind
Toward a Science of Consciousness
by Susan A. Greenfield

This text offers a unifying theory of consciousness that encompasses both phenomenological mental events and physical aspects of brain function. Using information gathered from clues in animal behaviour, human brain damage, computer science, neurobiology and philosophy, Greenfield offers a "Concentric Theory" of consciousness and shows how certain events in the brain correspond to our qualitative experience of the world. Demonstrating the ways in which we can interpret the experience of consciousness in terms of interactions among neurons, she explores how much we can learn by continuing to find the links between our physical and mental inner worlds.

Published W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN: 0-716-72723-4

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On the Nature of Consciousness
by Harry T. Hunt
 
This text examines consciousness, ranging from ancient Greece to empirical neuro-psychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. It includes a review of the renewed interest in ordinary consciousness and in altered and transpersonal states of consciousness.
Published byYale University Press. ISBN: 0-300-06230-3

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Consciousness and Experience
by William G. Lycan
 
This sequel to "Consciousness" (1987) continues the author's discussion of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to include issues and arguements that have arisen in the intervening years.

Published by The MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-12197-2

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Ten Problems of Consciousness:
A Representational Theory of Phenomenological Mind
by Michael Tyre
 
Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and grey matter comprising our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a theory about the phenomenal "what it feels like" aspect of consciousness. The test of any such theory, according to Tye, lies in how well it handles ten critical problems of consciousness.
Published by The MIT Press. ISBN: 0-262-70064-6

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