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Max Velmans
No full textThis is a discussion between Max Velmans and Susan Blackmore about some of the central features of Velmans' work on consciousness
Errata
No full textOn p. 662 of the target article “Is Human Information Processing Conscious,” by Max Velmans, BBS (1991), 14(4):651–69, the phrase “electrical stimuli applied 500 msec later” (sect. 5.1, para. 3, 2nd sentence) should read “electrical stimuli applied 500 msec earlier.”</jats:p
Max Velmans' *Understanding Consciousness*
Get PDFThis is a fine book. In what has become a crowded field, it stands out as direct, deep, and daring. It should place Max Velmans amongst the stars in the field like Chalmers, Dennett, Searle, and Churchland who are most commonly referenced in consciousness studies books and articles. It is direct in that the de rigueur history and review of the body-mind problem is illuminating and concise. It is deep in that Velmans deconstructs the usual idea of an objective world as distinct from our experienced world. It is daring in that in his last chapter he comes out on the side of consciousness co-evolving with the universe rather than arising at some point within it (though he insists that such speculation is beyond the more empirical intent of his earlier chapters)
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness: Selected works of Max Velmans
No full text(Publisher’s Description) In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. In this volume Max Velmans reflects on his long-spanning and varied career, considers the highs and lows in a brand new introduction and offers reactions to those who have responded to his published work over the years. This book offers a unique and compelling collection of the best publications in consciousness studies from one of the few psychologists to treat the topic systematically and seriously. Velmans’ approach is multi-faceted and represents a convergence of numerous fields of study – culminating in fascinating insights that are of interest to philosopher, psychologist and neuroscientist alike. With continuing contemporary relevance, and significant historical impact, this collection of works is an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the field of consciousness studies and the philosophy of the mind. Further details available at https://www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Deeper-Understanding-of-Consciousness-Selected-works-of-Max/Velmans/p/book/978113869944
SOBRE A EXPERIÊNCIA CONSCIENTE E O LIVRE-ARBÍTRIO: UM DEBATE ENTRE BENJAMIM LIBET E MAX VELMANS
Get PDFO objetivo central deste artigo é apresentar uma discussão sobre as experiências conscientes e sobre o livrearbítrio, a partir de um debate exposto em três artigos escritos por Benjamim Libet e Max Velmans – VELMANS, 2002 e 2003; LIBET, 2002. Além disso, meu objetivo secundário é exibir uma análise crítica de ambas as defesas e críticas expostas pelos dois autores. Concluindo com algumas questões deixadas em abertos pelos dois autores e deixando minha conclusão de que nenhum dos autores conseguiu sair ileso das acusações sofridas, pois ambos possuem teorias frágeis e mal fundamentadas
What Is Consciousness? Review of The Science Of Consciousness by Max Velmans (ed.)
No full textREVIEW OF: Max Velmans (Ed.) (1996). The Science of Consciousness: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Clinical Reviews. Routledge. xii +207pp. ISBN 0-4151-1082-3.International audienceMax Velmans is very clear about what a scientific understanding of consciousness must be: Thus, to understand what consciousness is, we need to understand what causes it, what its function(s) may be, how it relates to nonconscious processing in the brain and so on (p. 3). After pointing to structural features of this new book (section 1), I try to highlight its contribution to the different questions raised by this quotation (sections 2, 3, 4) and then signal some difficulties I had when reading the book and questions I have after reading it (section 5). In the final section (section 6) I give a snapshot of the book
What Is Consciousness? Review of The Science Of Consciousness by Max Velmans (ed.)
No full textREVIEW OF: Max Velmans (Ed.) (1996). The Science of Consciousness: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Clinical Reviews. Routledge. xii +207pp. ISBN 0-4151-1082-3.International audienceMax Velmans is very clear about what a scientific understanding of consciousness must be: Thus, to understand what consciousness is, we need to understand what causes it, what its function(s) may be, how it relates to nonconscious processing in the brain and so on (p. 3). After pointing to structural features of this new book (section 1), I try to highlight its contribution to the different questions raised by this quotation (sections 2, 3, 4) and then signal some difficulties I had when reading the book and questions I have after reading it (section 5). In the final section (section 6) I give a snapshot of the book
Understanding Consciousness: An Interview
No full textThis interview with Richard Bright of Interalia Magazine provides a brief summary of how I define consciousness, whether consciousness is incidental or fundamental, and whether, in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience, the concept of consciousness need revising. I then give a brief introduction to Reflexive Monism, and we go on to discuss whether there is a “hard problem”, the viability of panpsychism and my distinction between continuity and discontinuity theories about the distribution of consciousness. We then turn to the potential benefits of a more collaborative combination of third-person science with first-person methods of the kind used in contemplative practice and review some of the most important questions facing consciousness studies at this tim
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