Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)

"This collection opens a dialogue between process philosophy and contemporary consciousness studies. Approaching consciousness from diverse disciplinary perspectives--philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, neuropathology, psychotherapy, biology, animal ethology, and physics--the contributors offer empirical and philosophical support for a model of consciousness inspired by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). Whitehead's model is developed in ways he could not have anticipated to show how it can advance current debates beyond well-known sticking points. This has trenchant consequences for epistemology and suggests fresh and promising new perspectives on such topics as the mind-body problem, the neurobiology of consciousness, animal consciousness, the evolution of consciousness, panpsychism, the unity of consciousness, epiphenomenalism, free will, and causation."--Publisher description Preface / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes Pt. I: Introductory essays Process thought as a heuristic for investigating consciousness / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes Whitehead as a neglected figure of 20th century philosophy / Michel Weber and Anderson Weekes Consciousness as a topic of investigation in western thought / Anderson Weekes Whitehead's unique approach to the topic of consciousness / Anderson Weekes Pt. II: Psychology and philosophy of mind Consciousness as subjective form : Whitehead's nonreductionist naturalism / David Ray Griffin The interpretation and integration of the literature on consciousness from a process perspective / Michael W. Katzko Windows on nonhuman minds / Donald R. Griffin Pt. III: From metaphysics to (neuro-)science (and back again) Panexperientialism, quantum theory, and neuroplasticity / George W. Shields The evolution of consciousness / Max Velmans The carrier theory of causation / Gregg H. Rosenberg Pt. IV: Clinical applications: consciousness as process The microgenetic revolution in contemporary neuropsychology and neurolinguistics / Maria Pachalska and Bruce Duncan MacQueen From come to consciousness : recovery and the process of differentiation / Avraham Schweiger, Michael Frost, and Ofer Keren Consciousness and rationality from a process perspective / Michel Weber Pt. V: History (and future) of philosophy Consciousness, memory, and recollection according to Whitehead / Xavier Verley Consciousness and causation in Whitehead's phenomenology of becoming / Anderson Weekes.