Problem of Consciousness : Essays Towards a Resolution

Mcginn, Colin

ISBN 10: 0631188037 / ISBN 13: 9780631188032

Verlag: Basil Blackwel, 1995

Beschreibung

Pbk, 216p ; 26cm. Condition as new. Contents : Can we solve the mind-body problem? -- Consciousness and content -- Consciousness and the natural order -- The hidden structure of consciousness -- Mental states, natural kinds and psychophysical laws -- Philosophical materialsm -- Functionalism and phenomenalism : a critical note -- Could a machine be conscious? [Philosophy of mind - Consciousness - Philosophical aspects - Mind and body - Intellect] t199 / m15843.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015843

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Problem of Consciousness : Essays Towards a Resolution
• Verlag: Basil Blackwel
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0631188037
• ISBN-13: 9780631188032
• Bindung: Soft cover
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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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).