Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction

• A lively, engaging, and authoritative introduction to the hot topic of consciousness
• Serves as a much-needed launch pad for the further exploration of this complicated, controversial, and unresolved issue
• Challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul
• A clear overview of the subject that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience--unlike all the other books available on the subject

Readership: General readers interested in this controversial hot topic as well as those studying neuroscience, biology, psychology, and philosophy.

Susan Blackmore, Visiting Lecturer, University of the West of England

"A very thought-provoking book." - The Guardian

1: Why the mystery
2: The Human Brain
3: Time and Space
4: A Grand Illusion
5: The Self
6: Conscious Will
7: Altered States of Consciousness
8: The Evolution of Consciousness