The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness

Corey J. Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini All of these theories have merits, and different aspects of them seem to accord well with ...

The Biological Evolution of Consciousness that itself was selected for—what Gould and Lewontin (1979) called a spandrel. Alterna ...

Corey J. Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini irreducible to the activity of their mechanistic components (Tononi 2008; Koch et al. 201 ...

The Biological Evolution of Consciousness References Baars, B. (1988) A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, Cambridge, UK: Cambri ...

1 Introduction Animal consciousness continues to draw the attention of philosophers, scientists and general audiences and is tet ...

Animal Consciousness Animal Consciousness treatment; “fish” is actually a vastly heterogeneous category, for instance (Allen 201 ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson 4 Other Animal Minds: Historical Context The use of comparative reasoning to ground our knowledge of other ...

Animal Consciousness the dismemberment of living animals (such as dogs) for scientific and medical advancement. As he writes in ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson foraging (Call and Carpenter 2001), though interpretations positing high level awareness and control need t ...

Animal Consciousness Gallistel and King 2009). Observations favor mentalism over skepticism (and behaviorism) when a test is pas ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson 7 A Non-Inferential Solution? In a third school of thought our knowledge of other minds is a matter of dire ...

Animal Consciousness awareness, as this can at least enlighten as regards the Neural Correlate of Consciousness (NCC). In outlin ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson An important feature of the First Order Representationalist theory (FOR) is that it more or less straightfo ...

Animal Consciousness Tomasello 2008). However, even concerning chimps there is “very little consensus” (Fitzpatrick 2009: 258). ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson The experience of pain in humans depends on sometimes competing subsystems (e.g., sensory versus affective- ...

Animal Consciousness while Allen (2013), Balcombe (2016), Brown (2016), Seth (2016) and Striedter (2016) continue the commentary ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson the length of a short book and gives a sense of the enormity of the subject. Having turned up at least 2,00 ...

Animal Consciousness Block, N. (1995) “On a Confusion about the Function of Consciousness,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18: 22 ...

Sean Allen-Hermanson DeGrazia, D. (2009) “Self Awareness in Animals,” in R. Lurz (ed.) The Philosophy of Animal Minds, Cambridge ...

Animal Consciousness Ge, S., Yang, C. H., Hsu, K. S., Ming, G. L. and Song, H. (2007) “A Critical Period for Enhanced Synaptic P ...