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5 - Physicalist Approaches to Consciousness

from Part 1 - Divine Action and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

Sarah Lane Ritchie
Sarah Lane Ritchie
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University of Edinburgh
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The study of consciousness is a fascinating area not least because it is so inherently interdisciplinary. What is the proper field of study for mind-related questions? Is it philosophy, theology, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, or metaphysics? While the mind may once have been the exclusive domain of philosophers and theologians, Patricia Churchland notes the shifting academic landscape: “In general terms, the mind-body problem has ceased to be the reliably tangled conundrum it once was … (all the fields together and computation) have opened the door to an integration of neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy in a comprehensive theoretical framework.”1

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Divine Action and the Human Mind , pp. 157 - 186
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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