The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution

Colin McGinn

ISBN 10: 0631188037 / ISBN 13: 9780631188032

Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1993

Beschreibung

Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318. . 1993. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780631188032

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0631188037
• ISBN-13: 9780631188032
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Colin McGinn was formerly Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind (1981), The Subjective View (1982), Wittgenstein on Meaning (Blackwell, 1984) and Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989).