Sinnott-Armstrong

Finding Consciousness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The prominent contributors provide background information, survey the issues and positions, and take controversial stands from a wide variety of perspectives, including neuroscience and neurology, law and policy, and philosophy and ethics.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780190280307
• ISBN-10: 0190280301
• Artikelnr.: 47866267

Autorenporträt

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University in the Philosophy Department, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Law School. He has served as co-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association http://www.apaonline.org/ and co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/. He publishes widely in ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law, epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of religion.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1 - Finding Consciousness: An Introduction
* By Meghan Brayton and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
* 2 - Discussion with a Caring Father
* By Ken Diviney and Katherine Grichnik
* PART I: Consciousness
* 3 - The Geography of Unconsciousness: From Apparent Death to the
Minimally Conscious State
* By Jeffrey Baker
* 4 - Consciousness and Death: The Whole-Brain Formulation of Death
* By James L. Bernat
* 5 - Modes of Consciousness
* By Tim Bayne and Jakob Hohwy
* PART II: Diagnosis
* 6 - What is it like to be in a Disorder of Consciousness
* By Caroline Schnakers
* 7 - Decoding Thoughts in Behaviorally Non-Responsive Patients
* By Adrian Owen and Lorina Naci
* 8 - Persistent Vegetative State, Akinetic Mutism, and Consciousness
* By Will Davies and Neil Levy
* PART III: Ethics
* 9 - Lay Attitudes to Withdrawal of Treatment in Disorders of
Consciousness and Their Normative Significance
* By Jacob Gipson, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu
* 10 - Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State
* By Joshua Shepherd
* 11 - What's Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of
Consciousness
* By Jennifer Hawkins
* 12 - Minimally Conscious States and Pain: A Different Approach to
Patient Ethics
* By Valerie Gray Hardcastle
* PART IV: Law
* 13 - The Legal Circle of Life
* By Nita Farahany and Rachel Zacharias
* 14 - Guardianship and the Injured Brain: Representation and the
Rights of Patients and Families
* By Joseph Fins and Barbara Pohl
* References
* Index