As its explanatory power increases, so the sociology of neuroscience changes. Its
subdisciplines used to be practiced in relative isolation, and for a good reason. It was hard to …

Philosophy of neuroscience may seem an odd thing to do. What can a philosopher add to
what neuroscience itself has to say, other than at some very abstract level, far removed from …

[opening paragraph]: Nicholas Humphrey (1992; 2000) argues persuasively that
consciousness results from active and efferent rather than passive and afferent functions …

'Explanations' are of various kinds. They vary with the needs that call for them. The current
need to 'explain consciousness' expresses not only curiosity about its causes but a wider …

Questions about the relation between mind and world have long occupied philosophers of
mind. In _Consciousness in Action_ Susan Hurley invites us to adopt a ninety-degree shift …

In this important book, Susan Hurley sheds new light on consciousness by examining its
relationships to action from various angles. She assesses the role of agency in the unity of a …

“I have grown accustomed to the disrespect expressed by some of the participants for their
colleagues in the other disciplines.'Why [...]'ask the people in Artificial Intelligence,'do you …

The problem of consciousness has been identified as one of the central philosophical and
scientific challenges. Even defining the problem is a major challenge. The philosopher …

My target article (henceforth referred to as TA) presents evidence for causal interactions
between consciousness and brain and some standard ways of accounting for this evidence …

In the 19th century, the study of consciousness and the relation between conscious and
unconscious processes was considered central to the fledgling disciplines of neurology …