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Consciousness and the Brain

A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry

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  • © 1976

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Editors:
  1. Gordon G. Globus

    1. University of California, Irvine, USA

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  2. Grover Maxwell

    1. University of Minnesota, USA

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  3. Irwin Savodnik

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Manifestations of Mind: Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues

      • Walter B. Weimer
      Pages 5-31

  4. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-72
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    2. Mind, Brain, and the Symbolic Consciousness

      • Irwin Savodnik
      Pages 73-98

  5. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-100
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    2. Brain and Free Will

      • John C. Eccles
      Pages 101-121

  6. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124
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    2. An Old Ghost in a New Body

      • C. Wade Savage
      Pages 125-153

    3. How Dogmatic Can Materialism Be?

      • John C. Eccles
      Pages 155-160

  7. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-162
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    2. Mental Phenomena as Causal Determinants in Brain Function

      • R. W. Sperry
      Pages 163-177

  8. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-180
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    2. Consciousness as an Emergent Causal Agent in the Context of Control System Theory

      • E. M. Dewan
      Pages 181-198

  9. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-203
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    2. Reductionism, Levels of Organization, and the Mind-Body Problem

      • William C. Wimsatt
      Pages 205-267

  10. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-270
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    2. Mind, Structure, and Contradiction

      • Gordon G. Globus
      Pages 271-293
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The relationship of consciousness to brain, which Schopenhauer grandly referred to as the "world knot," remains an unsolved problem within both philosophy and science. The central focus in what follows is the relevance of science---from psychoanalysis to neurophysiology and quantum physics-to the mind-brain puzzle. Many would argue that we have advanced little since the age of the Greek philosophers, and that the extraordinary accumulation of neuroscientific knowledge in this century has helped not at all. Increas­ ingly, philosophers and scientists have tended to go their separate ways in considering the issues, since they tend to differ in the questions that they ask, the data and ideas which are provided for consideration, their methods for answering these questions, and criteria for judging the acceptability of an answer. But it is our conviction that philosophers and scientists can usefully interchange, at least to the extent that they provide co~straints upon each other's preferred strategies, and it may prove possible for more substantive progress to be made. Philosophers have said some rather naive things by ignoring the extraordinary advances in the neurosciences in the twentieth century. The skull is not filled with green cheese! On the other hand, the arrogance of many scientists toward philosophy and their faith in the scientific method is equally naive. Scientists clearly have much to learn from philosophy as an intellectual discipline.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Irvine, USA

    Gordon G. Globus

  • University of Minnesota, USA

    Grover Maxwell

  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Irwin Savodnik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Consciousness and the Brain

  • Book Subtitle: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry

  • Editors: Gordon G. Globus, Grover Maxwell, Irwin Savodnik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2196-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2198-9Published: 19 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2196-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 366

  • Topics: Neuropsychology

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