Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective

by Peter Carruthers

Overview

Peter Carruthers's essays on consciousness and related issues have had a substantial impact on the field, and many of his best are now collected here in revised form. Together they develop, defend, and explore the implications of Carruthers's distinctive theory of experiential consciousness; they discuss the differences between conscious experiencing and conscious thinking; and, controversially, they consider what would follow, either for morality or for comparative psychology, if it should turn out that animals lack conscious experiences. This collection will be of great interest to anyone working in philosophy of mind or cognitive science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199277360
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/04/2005
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.22(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

University of Maryland

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Reductive explanation and the 'explanatory gap'3. Natural theories of consciousness4. HOP over FOR, HOT theory5. Phenomenal concepts and higher-order experiences6. Dual-content theory: the explanatory advantages7. Conscious thinking: language or elimination? 8. Conscious experience versus conscious thought9. Sympathy and subjectivity10. Suffering without subjectivity11. Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much12. On being simple minded