Toward a Science of Consciousness 2
The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates
edited by Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, and Alwyn C. Scott
What is consciousness? Recent attempts to answer this question have
motivated two interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the University of
Arizona in Tucson. The first volume of *Toward a Science of Consciousness*
is now considered a resource book for the emerging field. This volume
presents a selection of invited papers from the second conference, held in
April 1996. The book's fifteen sections demonstrate the broad range of
fields now focusing on consciousness. The sections include philosophy,
cognitive science, medicine, neurobiology, neural correlates, vision, sleep
and dreaming, anesthesia, molecular biology and evolution, quantum theory,
spacetime, hierarchial organization, and experiential approaches. Each
section is preceded by an overview and commentary. The participants include
Bernard Baars, Ned Block, David J. Chalmers, Patricia S. Churchland, Daniel
C. Dennett, Jeffrey Gray, Daniel Hillis, J. Allan Hobson, Stephen LaBerge,
Jaron Lanier, Daniel S. Levine, Nikos K. Logothetis, Gary E. Schwartz, John
R. Searle, Roger N. Shepard, Henry P. Stapp, Petra Stoerig, Charles T.
Tart, John Taylor, Francisco J. Varela, Max Velmans, Roger Walsh, and
Lawrence Weiskantz.
Stuart R. Hameroff is Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and
Psychology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Alfred W.
Kaszniak is Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the
University of Arizona. Alwyn C. Scott is Professor in the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Arizona and in the Department of
Mathematical Modeling at the Technical University of Denmark.
Complex Adaptive Systems series
A Bradford Book
April 1998
7 x 10, 760 pp., 90 illus.
$70.00S cloth
ISBN 0-262-08262-4
Other titles of interest (edit for brevity):
Mind Readings
Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science
edited by Paul Thagard
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/THAMPS98
Inattentional Blindness
Arien Mack and Irvin Rock
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MACHHS98
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