Phenomenal consciousness: a naturalistic theory
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Main Author: Carruthers, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-340) and indexes
Assumptions, distinctions, and a map -- Perspectival, subjective, and worldly facts -- Explanatory gaps and qualia -- Naturalisation and narrow content -- First-order representationalism -- Against first-order representationalism -- Higher-order representationalism : a first defence -- Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (1) : function -- Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (2) : feel -- Phenomenal consciousness and language -- Fragmentary consciousness and the Cartesian theatre
Argues that the subjective feel of our experience is fully explicable in naturalistic (scientifically acceptable) terms, and develops and defends a novel account in terms of higher-order thought. Essential reading for all those in philosophy and the cognitive sciences who are interested in the problem of consciousness
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 347 pages)
ISBN:0511014449
0511046081
0511156707
0511487495
0521781736
9780511014444
9780511046087
9780511156700
9780511487491
9780521781732

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