Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism

Derk Pereboom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-976403-7 (ISBN)

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In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed. The first exploits the open possibility that introspective representations fail to represent mental properties as they are in themselves; specifically, that introspection represents phenomenal properties as having certain characteristic qualitative natures, which these properties might actually lack. The second response draws on the proposal that currently unknown fundamental intrinsic properties provide categorical bases for known physical properties and would also yield an account of consciousness. While there are non-physicalist versions of this position, some are amenable to physicalism. The book's third theme is a defense of a nonreductive account of physicalism. The type of nonreductivism endorsed departs from others in that it rejects all token identity claims for psychological and microphysical entities. The deepest relation between the mental and the microphysical is constitution, where this relation is not to be explicated by the notion of identity.

Derk Pereboom is Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University

Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. The Knowledge Argument and Introspective Inaccuracy ; 2. Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap ; 3. Conceivability Arguments and Qualitative Inaccuracy ; 4. Qualitative Inaccuracy and Recent Challenges to Conceivability Arguments ; 5. Russellian Monism I ; 6. Russellian Monism II ; 7. Robust Nonreductive Physicalism ; 8. Mental Compositional Properties ; Bibliography ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2011
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy of Mind Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 161 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-976403-4 / 0199764034
ISBN-13	978-0-19-976403-7 / 9780199764037
Zustand	Neuware