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The Nature of Consciousness

Philosophical Debates
Buch | Hardcover
873 Seiten
1997
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-02399-3 (ISBN)
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This text is an introduction to consciousness which aims to impose structure on the relating philosophical literature. There are sections covering stream of consciousness, theoretical issues, function of consciousness, subjectivity and the explanatory gap, the knowledge argument and qualia.

Part 1 Stream of consciousness: the stream of consciousness, William James; the Cartesian theatre and "filling in" the stream of consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett; the robust phenomenology of the stream of consciousness, Owen Flanagan. Part 2 Consciousness, science and methodology: prospects for a unified theory of consciousness or, what dreams are made of, Owen Flanagan; consciousness, folk psychology and cognitive science, Alvin I. Goldman; can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?, Patricia Smith Churchland; time and the observer -the where and when of consciousness in the brain, Daniel C. Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne; begging the question against phenomenal consciousness, Ned Block; time for more alternatives, Robert Van Gulick. Part 3 The psychology and neuropsychology of consciousness: contrastive phenomenology - a thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness, Bernard J. Baars; visual perception and visual awareness after brain damage - a tutorial overview, Martha J. Farah; understanding consciousness - clues from unilateral neglect and related disorders, Edoardo Bisiach; modularity and consciousness, Tim Shallice; towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch. Part 4 Consciousness and content: consciousness and content, Colin McGinn; externalism and experience, Martin Davies; a representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character, Michael Tye; sensation and the content of experience - a distinction, Christopher Peacocke. Part 5 Function of consciousness: conscious inessentialism and the epiphenomenalist suspicion, Owen Flanagan; on a confusion about a function of consciousness, Ned Block; the path not taken, Daniel C. Dennett; availability - the cognitive basis of experience?, David J. Chalmers; fallacies or analyses?, Jennifer Church; two kinds of consciousness, Tyler Burge; understanding the phenomenal mind - are we all just armadillos?, part 2 - the absent qualia argument, Robert Van Gulick. Part 6 Metaphysics of consciousness: the identity thesis, Saul A. Kripke; reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness, John R. Searle; a question about consciousness, Georges Rey; finding the mind in the neural world, Frank Jackson; breaking the hold - silicon brains, conscious robots and other minds, John R. Searle; the first-person perspective, Sydney Shoemaker. Part 7 Subjectivity and explanatory gap: what is it like to be a bat?, Thomas Nagel; can we solve the mind-body problem?, Colin McGinn; on leaving out what it's like, Joseph Levine. Part 8 The knowledge argument: understanding the phenomenal mind - are we all just armadillos?, part 1 - phenomenal knowledge and explanatory gaps, Robert Van Gulick; what Mary didn't know, Frank Jackson; knowing qualia - a reply to Jackson, Paul M. Churchland; what experience teaches, David Lewis; phenomenal states, Brian Loar. Part 9 Qualia: quining qualia, Daniel C. Dennett; the inverted spectrum, Sydney Shoemkaer; the intrinsic qualit

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.1997
Zusatzinfo 44
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 186 x 235 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
ISBN-10 0-262-02399-7 / 0262023997
ISBN-13 978-0-262-02399-3 / 9780262023993
Zustand Neuware
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