Consciousness from a Broad Perspective

Anders Hedman is Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has been a Fellow in the department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley and worked as a National Expert for the European Commission in the unit of Future and Emerging Technologies Open, specializing in the cross-section of information and communication technologies, neuroscience and philosophy. He received his BA in Philosophy & Psychology from UC Berkeley and his PhD in human-computer interaction from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

• Chapter 1. Consciousness.- Chapter 2. Philosophy from Socrates to Descartes.- Chapter 3. Philosophy, Science and the Mind-Body Problem.- Chapter 4. Consciousness as a Scientific Problem.- Chapter 5. Consciousness Rediscovered.- Chapter 6. Consciousness as a Modern Mystery.- Chapter 7. Rethinking Consciousness.- Chapter 8. Externalism and Consciousness.- Chapter 9. Conclusions.