The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010)

Editors

Jonathan Cole | Poole Hospital and University of Bournemouth

Marcelo Dascal † | Tel-Aviv University

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 18:3] 2010. vi, 148 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.18.3

Table of Contents

Foreword
Why yet another debate on consciousness? Marcelo Dascal †	473–480
Introduction
The Origin of Consciousness: The background to the debate Jonathan Cole	481–495
Core article
What is consciousness for? Christopher Frith	497–551
Concluding discussion
Concluding discussion Jonathan Cole, Marcelo Dascal †, Shaun Gallagher and Christopher Frith	553–559
Invited contributions
Defining consciousness: The importance of non-reflective self-awareness Shaun Gallagher	561–569
Large scale temporal coordination of cortical activity as prerequisite for conscious experience Wolf Singer	570–583
Action and awareness of agency: Comments on Chris Frith José Luis Bermúdez	576–588
Review articles
Tye on materialism without phenomenal concepts: Comments on Consciousness Revisited Reviewed by Yaron M. Senderowicz	597–606
Consciousness and the feeling body Reviewed by Julian Kiverstein	607–616

Subjects

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Discourse studies

Philosophy

Psychology

Cognitive psychology