Consciousness
Subtitle: new philosophical perspectives
By: edited by Quentin Smith and Aleksandar Jokic
Contributors: Smith, Quentin, 1952-; Jokić, Aleksandar
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Consciousness
Description: "Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for several decades, but, despite substantial progress, the most difficult problems have still not reached any generally agreed solution. This book is one starting place for future research. Eighteen original, specially written essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, knowledge of mental states, consciousness and the brain, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Blurry images, double vision, and other oddities: new problems for representationalism? / Michael Tye; title: The intentional structure of consciousness / Time Crane; title: Experience and representation / Joseph Levine; title: Transparent experience and the availability of qualia / Brian Loar; title: Colour, consciousness, and colour consciousness / Brian P. McLaughlin; title: How to read your own mind: a cognitive theory of self-consciousness / Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich; title: Knowing mental states: the asymmetry of psychological prediction and explanation / Kristin Andrews; title: The content and epistemology of phenomenal belief / David J. Chalmers; title: Privileged access / Ernest Sosa; title: Consciousness and cognition: semiotic conceptions of bodies and minds / James H. Fetzer; title: Maps, gaps, and traps / Robert Van Gulick; title: Theories of consciousness / David Papineau; title: Perspectival representation and the knowledge argument / William G. Lycan; title: McGinn on consciousness and the mind-body problem / Anthony Brueckner and E. Alex Beroukhim; title: Why cognitive scientists cannot ignore quantum mechanics / Quentin Smith; title: Consciousness and the quantum world: putting qualia on the map / Michael Lockwood; title: Mindless sensationalism: a quantum framework for consciousness / Don N. Page; title: Consciousness and quantum theory: strange bedfellows / Barry Loewer