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Psychology Department Boasts Special Issue of Journal

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Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, No. 1-2

Dr. J. Scott Jordan and Dr. Dawn McBride of the Department of Psychology are the guest co-editors of a special issue of The Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science and the Humanities. Entitled The Concepts of Consciousness, this 272-page double issue is devoted to 14 papers first presented at a conference at Illinois State University in November 2004, for which Jordan and McBride were also the co-coordinators. The conference and this special issue focuses on the subject of conceptual integration in a science of consciousness. “This special issue shows the value of international conferences with leading contributors in a field,” said Dr. David Barone, Chair of the Department of Psychology. “The fact that Scott Jordan and Dawn McBride of the Psychology Department hosted such a conference and had its entire proceedings published puts Illinois State University on the worldwide map for consciousness studies research."

The issue contains an introduction by Jordan and McBride, as well as papers authored by ISU faculty. Included are Consciousness and Realism by David Anderson of the Department of Philosophy, The Role of Control in a Science of Consciousness by Jordan and Marcello Ghin, and Methods for Measuring Conscious and Automatic Memory by McBride. Other contributors include scholars from universities in Canda, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, as well as several U.S. institutions.
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