{"product_id":"a-philosophy-for-the-science-of-animal-consciousness","title":"A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the \"final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution\" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex, evolved, and multi-dimensional phenomenon in nature, rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the tools of science and restricted to a single species.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The so-called emergence of a science of consciousness in the 1990s has at best been a science of human consciousness. This book aims to advance a true Darwinian science of consciousness in which its evolutionary origin, function, and phylogenetic diversity are moved from the field's periphery to its very centre; thus enabling us to integrate consciousness into an evolutionary view of life. Accordingly, this book has two objectives: (i) to argue for the need and possibility of an evolutionary bottom-up approach that addresses the problem of consciousness in terms of the evolutionary origins of a new ecological lifestyle that made consciousness worth having, and (ii) to articulate a thesis and beginnings of a theory of the place of consciousness as a complex evolved phenomenon in nature that can help us to answer the question of what it is like to be a bat, an octopus, or a crow.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in advancing our understanding of animal minds, as well as anyone with a keen interest in how we can develop a science of animal consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48175862218942,"sku":"9781032343617","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/0592\/5054\/files\/15042723482555.jpg?v=1784423482","url":"https:\/\/bookshopnow.com\/products\/a-philosophy-for-the-science-of-animal-consciousness","provider":"Book Shop Now","version":"1.0","type":"link"}