Consciousness

by Frank Jackson (Editor)

Overview

Brings together some of the most important research publications on the philosophical problem of consciousness. It includes a detailed introduction that surveys the leading issues in the current debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351949576
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/2016
Series:	The International Research Library of Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	440
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Frank Jackson

Table of Contents

Contents: Part 1 Phenomenal Feel, Functionalism, and Representation: The inverted spectrum, Sydney Shoemaker; Goodbye to transposed qualia, Robert Kirk; The subjective qualities of experience, Michael Tye; Self-knowledge and 'inner sense': lecture III: the phenomenal character of experience, Sydney Shoemaker; A representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character, Michael Tye. Part 2 Qualia and Physicalism: The Knowledge Argument: What Mary didn't know, Frank Jackson: A challenge to physicalism, Richard Warner; Could love be like a heatwave, Janet Levin; Jackson on physical information and qualia, Terence Horgan; Reduction, Qualia and the direct introspection of brain states, Paul M. Churchland; Phenomenal knowledge, Earl Conee. Part 3 Qualia and Physicalism: Absent Qualia and Zombies: Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block, Sydney Shoemaker; Are absent qualia impossible?, Ned Block; From physical explicability to full-blooded materialism, Robert Kirk; Form, function and feel. What must be added to get consciousness of?, William G. Lycan; Conscious experience, Fred Dretske; Consciousness and concepts I Robert Kirk; Consciousness and concepts II, Peter Carruthers. Part 4 Making Physical Sense of Consciousness: Physicalism, consciousness and the antipathetic fallacy, David Papineau; Lost the plot? Reconstructing Dennett's multiple drafts theory of consciousness, Kathleen Akins; The message is: there is no medium, Daniel Dennett; Should a materialist believe in qualia?, David Lewis. Part 5 Pessimism: Can we solve the mind-body problem?, Colin McGinn.

Editorial Reviews

Reprints 23 essays from various, mostly English-language, journals that represent a range of philosophical schools and approaches. They are arranged according to recurrent themes and issues that arise in discussions of consciousness: phenomenal feel, functionalism, and representation; qualia and physicalism: the knowledge argument, and absent qualia and zombies; conscious experience and concepts; making physical sense of consciousness; and pessimism. Specific topics include solving the mind-body problem, reconstructing Dennett's multiple drafts theory, whether absent qualia are impossible, whether love could be like a heatwave, and a representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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