Dis/connecting the concepts of consciousness: The virtues of interdisciplinarity

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-308

  Schouten, Maurice K D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Eliminativism; Holonomic brain theory; Interdisciplinarity; Reductionism; Reference

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EID: 0033478856     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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