The Unity of Consciousness

by Tim Bayne

Book Overview

In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the book Bayne develops an account of what it means to say that consciousness is unified. Part II applies this account to a variety of cases - drawn from both normal and pathological forms of experience - in which the unity of consciousness is said to break down. Bayne argues that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199659400
• ISBN13: 9780199659401
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"