期刊名称：Avant : Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
印刷版ISSN：2082-7598
电子版ISSN：2082-6710
出版年度：2012
卷号：III
期号：2
出版社：Centre for Philosophical Research
摘要：Consciousness, the mind and the self have for many years constituted "hot" topics of debate whether among philosophers orscientists. Even though a number of those con-tributing to such debates attempt to convince the world that they possess the knowl-edge on the subjects concerning these phenomena, baffling as they are for an average person, only few of the books devoted to the subject available on the market appear to cover it in a competent manner. Doubtlessly the works of contemporary cognitive sci-entists, that is researchers professionally involved in the subject of cognition, can be counted among these. These works definitely include the book by John Kevin O'Regan, Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell. Understanding the feel of consciousness. O'Regan is a renowned experimental psychologist, researcher into perception (among other things he has conducted research into change blindness) and one of the authors of the sensorimotor theory. His interests also include other cognitive phenomena, such as the rubber hand illusion or illusory pain. He works in the French Laboratoire Psy-chologie de la Perception, where he conducts his research
