• Emphasises the truly multidisciplinary nature of the subject, while elegantly drawing together its diverse strands, to provide the reader with a coherent, unified presentation
• Explores the pros and cons of theories and positions to give the reader a balanced, objective view of the subject
• A critical approach challenges the reader to truly engage with the text, use it to form their own views, and develop their reasoning and critical-thinking skills
• Sideboxes throughout stimulate the reader by offering additional insights and further explanations to augment the main text
• Extensive links and references to the primary literature encourage the reader to take their exploration of the subject beyond the confines of the book, to get the most out of their learning
• Online Resource Centre features figures from the book available to download to facilitate lecture preparation.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates studying an upper division course on the subject. Also of value to other postgraduates and researchers interested in this interdisciplinary topic.

David Rose, University of Surrey

Part 1 Thinking about mind
1: Philosophical approaches
2: The history of the mind-body problem
3: The philosophy of neuroscience: neuronal behaviourism
Part 2 Function and brain
4: Recent advances in functionalism I. Homuncular functionalism
5: Recent advances in functionalism II. Teleological functionalism
6: Representation: the physical basis of mental content
7: Conscious and unconscious representations
8: Brain dynamics, attention and movement
9: Memory in perception
10: The where and when of visual experience
11: Multiple types of consciousness
12: Conclusion