The Problem of Consciousness : Essays Towards a Resolution

Colin (Rutgers University) McGinn

ISBN 10: 0631188037 / ISBN 13: 9780631188032

Editore: John Wiley And Sons Ltd Dez 1992, 1992

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Neuware - The existence of consciousness in a material world has long seemed mysterious. This book attempts to account for the mystery in a new way. It is not a matter of the world containing an objective miracle or a metaphysical enigma. Consciousness does not undermine atheistic naturalism. Nor is it that we are in the grip of a philosophical mistake - that there is nothing in reality to worry about. Consciousness does exist, and it cannot be explained by the physical sciences. The mystery arises, rather, from our modes of concept-formation: we cannot in principle arrive at a theory that would render the nature of consciousness explicable to us, despite its inherent naturalness. Codice articolo 9780631188032

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Titolo: The Problem of Consciousness : Essays ...

Casa editrice: John Wiley And Sons Ltd Dez 1992

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto:

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.

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"These essays provide a vivid introduction to current views in the philosophy of mind and to their immediate precursors ... an up–to–date, sophisticated and enjoyably tendentious account ... if you want to read somebody clever worrying about a problem that′s worth somebody clever′s worrying about, read The Problem of Consciousness." Jerry Fodor, London Review of Books