Mental reality:

"In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the...

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Main Author: Strawson, Galen 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] MIT Press 2010
Edition:2. ed.
Series:Representation and mind series
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative position, "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical with a fully realist account of the nature of conscious experience. Naturalized Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive) form of materialism. Adductive materialists don't claim that conscious experience is anything less than we ordinarily conceive it to be, in being wholly physical. They claim instead that the physical is something more than we ordinarily conceive it to be, given that many of the wholly physical goings-on in the brain constitute - literally are - conscious experiences as we ordinarily conceive them."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XX, 373 S.
ISBN:9780262513104

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