Disturbed Consciousness
Author: Gennaro, Rocco J.
ISBN: 9780262552400
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 May 2024
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies./b>BR>BR>b>Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies./b>br>br>In i>Disturbed Consciousness/i>, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors-some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work-consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychopathology might challenge such a theory. Thus one essay defends the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness against the charge that it cannot account for somatoparaphrenia (a delusion in which one denies ownership of a limb). Another essay argues that various attempts to explain away such anomalies within subjective theories of consciousness fail.br>br>Other essays consider such topics as the application of a model of unified consciousness to cases of brain bisection and dissociative identity disorder; prefrontal and parietal underconnectivity in autism and other psychopathologies; self-deception and the self-model theory of subjectivity; schizophrenia and the vehicle theory of consciousness; and a shift in emphasis away from an internal (or brainbound) approach to psychopathology to an interactive one. Each essay offers a distinctive perspective from the intersection of philosophy, consciousness research, and psychiatry.br>br>b>Contributors/b>br>Alexandre Billon, Andrew Brook, Paula Droege, Rocco J. Gennaro, Philip Gerrans, William Hirstein, Jakob Hohwy, Uriah Kriegel, Timothy Lane, Thomas Metzinger, Erik Myin, Inez Myin-Germeys, Myrto Mylopoulos, Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie, J. Kevin O'Regan, Iuliia Pliushch, Robert Van Gulick
ISBN: 9780262552400
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 May 2024
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies./b>BR>BR>b>Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies./b>br>br>In i>Disturbed Consciousness/i>, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors-some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work-consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychopathology might challenge such a theory. Thus one essay defends the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness against the charge that it cannot account for somatoparaphrenia (a delusion in which one denies ownership of a limb). Another essay argues that various attempts to explain away such anomalies within subjective theories of consciousness fail.br>br>Other essays consider such topics as the application of a model of unified consciousness to cases of brain bisection and dissociative identity disorder; prefrontal and parietal underconnectivity in autism and other psychopathologies; self-deception and the self-model theory of subjectivity; schizophrenia and the vehicle theory of consciousness; and a shift in emphasis away from an internal (or brainbound) approach to psychopathology to an interactive one. Each essay offers a distinctive perspective from the intersection of philosophy, consciousness research, and psychiatry.br>br>b>Contributors/b>br>Alexandre Billon, Andrew Brook, Paula Droege, Rocco J. Gennaro, Philip Gerrans, William Hirstein, Jakob Hohwy, Uriah Kriegel, Timothy Lane, Thomas Metzinger, Erik Myin, Inez Myin-Germeys, Myrto Mylopoulos, Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie, J. Kevin O'Regan, Iuliia Pliushch, Robert Van Gulick
