Reviews of Consciousness: An Introduction
by Susan Blackmore
Hodder and Stoughton 456pp, £19.99 ISBN 0 340 80909 4
Naturalism.org,
March 2006
"Do you want to know the major players in consciousness studies
and their pet theories? Want a taste of the brain science behind the
theories, and their intellectual history? Want first-person exercises
that make the weirdness of consciousness palpable? Want the full
catastrophe of the mind-body problem ... It's all here with lots of
graphics, sidebars, cartoons - a very diverting and detailed survey that
conveys a lot of science and philosophy in its historical and cultural."
Tom Clark Full
Review
Journal of Consciousness Studies, July 2005
"... an easy read ... it has clearly set the standard for similar
future texts on this most contentious yet exciting of subjects."
Tim Calton in JCS
American Scientist, September 2004
"... a
page-turner"
"Whatever your preconceived notions of "self,"
Blackmore's book will surely get you thinking—wherever and whatever
"you" may be."
Full review in AS.
Scientific American, March 2004 "...her
delightful introduction ..."
"Presented as a textbook, it is so highly engaging that I recommend
it for general readers, too." Extract.
Science and Consciousness Review January
2004 "A delightful
compendium"
"If I were an undergrad, I would love it! Or a grad student…..
Actually, as a professor, I love it!"
Full review in SRC
Nature, 11 December 2003 "... a truly excellent
textbook."
"unusually careful
attention to details of argumentation and
evidence"
Full
review Word. pdf.
Times Higher Education Supplement
28 November
2003 Full review.
"... towers over its competitors... I cannot see how this book could be substantially improved."
Focus, September 2003 "Book of the Month"
"... how science books should be written."
Full
review.
Leeds Student, "a great tool for opening up the
mind" "should empower ... anyone who is really interested in
answering the only questions of any importance in life." Full
review
SciMed Reviews, "the style of the book lays
down a challenge to the reader: to enter perplexity ...Her urgent sense
of enquiry coupled with a scientific mentality allows her to range
freely across a complex landscape that is 'consciousness studies'. And
she carries this off in the manner most appealing to any student: she is
always engaging you." Full
review
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