Valerie Gray Hardcastle
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valerie Gray Hardcastle is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2352-099X
Titles
Constructing the Self
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Constructing the Self analyzes the narrative conception of self, filling a serious gap in philosophy and grounding discussion in other disciplines. It answers the questions:What are the connections between our interpretations, selfhood, and conscious phenomenal experience?Why do we believe that… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 73] 2008. xi, 186 pp.
Sisyphus’s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable
Eric Dietrich and Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 60] 2005. xii, 136 pp.
Locating Consciousness
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 4] 1995. xviii, 266 pp.
Articles
2004 12. HOT theories of consciousness: More sad tales of philosophical intuitions gone astray Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology, Gennaro, Rocco J. (ed.), pp. 277–294 | Article
2003 7. Attention versus consciousness: A distinction with a difference Neural Basis of Consciousness, Osaka, Naoyuki (ed.), pp. 105–120 | Chapter
2000 Dissolving Differences: How to Understand the Competing Approaches to Human Emotion The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 119–131 | Chapter
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