The Nature of Consciousness
- Author: Mark Rowlands, University College Cork
- Date Published: August 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521039475
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Mark Rowlands develops an innovative and radical account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, with significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. He argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology, and cognitive science.
Read more- Offers a very useful survey of the main positions in the field as well as advancing the author's own
- Clearly written and argued
- Consciousness a topic of hot debate in philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science
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"...a book filled with scholarly argument, well-developed-- but also well-defined-- complex jargon, excellent critique of all the previous important works of the field (thought experiments included) and written by a philosophy lecturer. This book is required reading not only for those wanting to get to grips with what is going on in consciousness studies, but for those who are dissatisfied with the current accounts which...tend to base themselves on an objectualist thesis." Ion Georgiou, Metapsychology
See more reviews"...the book deserves praise for setting out a detailed and well-argued case for actualism, and for making a forceful case for its transcendental nature in the context of mainstream, objectualist, analytical philosophy of mind." - Jacob Hohwy, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Date Published: August 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521039475
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 225 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.391kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The problem of phenomenal consciousness
2. Consciousness and supervenience
3. The explanatory gap
4. Consciousness and higher-order experience
5. Consciousness and higher-order thoughts
6. The structure of consciousness
7. What it is like
8. Against objectualism II: mistakes about the way things seem
9. Consciousness and representation
10. Consciousness and the natural order
Bibliography
Index.
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