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Measuring the Immeasurable Mind - Matthew Owen

Measuring the Immeasurable Mind

Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition

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Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4014-7 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
Matthew Owen argues in Measuring the Immeasurable Mind that it is possible to empirically detect and measure nonphysical consciousness. Toward this end, Owen proposes a model of neural correlates of consciousness informed by Aristotle’s understanding of causal powers and Aquinas’s view of human nature.
In Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition, Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysical character, it is possible to empirically detect and measure consciousness.

Toward the end of the previous century, the neuroscience of consciousness set its roots and sprouted within a materialist milieu that reduced the mind to matter. Several decades later, dualism is being dusted off and reconsidered. Although some may see this revival as a threat to consciousness science aimed at measuring the conscious mind, Owen argues that measuring consciousness, along with the medical benefits of such measurements, is not ruled out by consciousness being nonphysical. Owen proposes the Mind-Body Powers model of neural correlates of consciousness, which is informed by Aristotelian causation and a substance dualist view of human nature inspired by Thomas Aquinas, who often followed Aristotle. In addition to explaining why there are neural correlates of consciousness, the model provides a philosophical foundation for empirically discerning and quantifying consciousness. En route to presenting and applying the Mind-Body Powers model to neurobiology, Owen rebuts longstanding objections to dualism related to the mind-body problem. With scholarly precision and readable clarity, Owen applies an oft forgotten yet richly developed historical vantage point to contemporary cognitive neuroscience.

Matthew Owen is a philosopher who teaches at Yakima Valley College and an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Common Abbreviations

1 The Immeasurable Conscious Mind

2 Neural Correlates of Consciousness

3 Mental Causation: Identifying Dualism’s Problem

4 The Causal Pairing Problem

5 Neo-Thomistic Hylomorphism

6 En-forming Causal Pairing

7 The Mind-Body Powers Model of NCC

8 Empirically Discerning and Measuring Consciousness

References

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Zusatzinfo Illustrations; Black & White Illustrations
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 228 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-4014-9 / 1793640149
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4014-7 / 9781793640147
Zustand Neuware
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