Consciousness and the prospects of physicalism
By: by Derk Pereboom
Series: Philosophy of mind series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780199764037
Description: In this work, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The knowledge argument and introspective inaccuracy; title: Phenomenal concepts and the explanatory gap; title: Conceivability arguments and qualitative inaccuracy; title: Qualitative inaccuracy and recent challenges to conceivability arguments; title: Russellian monism I; title: Russellian monism II; title: Robust nonreductive physicalism; title: Mental compositional properties.