Owen Flanagan has truly given us a gem. With the language of a natural teacher, Flanagan draws on a wonderful variety of examples to make accessible to a wide audience his remarkable depth and breadth in all areas surrounding the questions of consciousness. A joy to read, this book is grounded in common sense and never loses sight of why consciousness is such a fascinating subject for study. -- Edward M. Hundert, M.D. Harvard Medical School, author of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind Generations of behaviorists have argued vociferously against a scientific effort to understand human consciousness. Owen Flanagan charts a clear path through the philosophical minefield and offers a fresh, cogent, and very readable exposition of the view that good scientific research can in fact cast light on the nature of conscious experience. -- Bernard J. Baars, Author, The Cognitive Theory of Consciousness and Co-Editor, Consciousness and Cognition This is a marvelous book. Its central claim is that within a broadly conceived naturalism there can be a coherent, probing, insightful theory of consciousness. Flanagan examines more problems and topics associated with consciousness than any other philosopher since William James! -- George Graham, Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered and The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.
This is a marvelous book. Its central claim is that within a broadly conceived naturalism there can be a coherent, probing, insightful theory of consciousness. Flanagan examines more problems and topics associated with consciousness than any other philosopher since William James!" George Graham , Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham
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