Consciousness
CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics.

Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers.

Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos.

Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.

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Consciousness
CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics.

Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers.

Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos.

Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.

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CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics.

Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers.

Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos.

Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781119669326
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 08/02/2022
Series: Wiley Blackwell Readings in Philosophy
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Josh Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Josh Weisberg David Rosenthal 1

Part I Problems of Consciousness 15

1 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Nagel 17

2 What Is It Like to Be Boring and Myopic? Kathleen Akins 25

3 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature David J. Chalmers 52

4 The Explanatory Gap Joseph Levine 79

5 A Third-Person Approach to Consciousness Daniel C. Dennett 94

Part II Consciousness and Knowledge 107

6 What Mary Didn't Know Frank Jackson 109

7 In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy Katalin Balog 113

8 What Experience Teaches David Lewis 126

Part III Qualitative Consciousness 141

9 On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness Ned Block 143

10 The Intrinsic Quality of Experience Gilbert Harman 175

11 How to Think about Mental Qualities David Rosenthal 186

Part IV Theories of Consciousness 203

12 Conscious Experience Fred Dretske 205

13 The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of Consciousness Uriah Kriegel 219

14 What Kind of Awareness is Awareness of Awareness? Michelle Montague 237

15 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Josh Weisberg 249

Part V Agency and Physicalism 263

16 Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity Susanna Schellenberg 265

17 The Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience Myrto Mylopoulos 280

18 Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism Galen Strawson 294

19 Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem: A Reply to Strawson Fiona Macpherson 311

Select Bibliography 322

Index 327

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