The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys

• ISBN: 9781119002208
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication: March 16, 2017
• Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
• Language: English

Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

• Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field
• Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest in panpsychism, and more
• Covers a wide array of topics that include the origins and extent of consciousness, various consciousness experiences such as meditation and drug-induced states, and the neuroscience of consciousness
• Presents 54 peer-reviewed chapters written by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines