A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book develops a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advances 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. The author has two objectives: (i) to argue for 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 a...