The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution.

McGinn, Colin.

ISBN 10: 0631188037 / ISBN 13: 9780631188032

Editore: Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1994

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Paperback octavo, very good condition, top edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 216 pp. Collected essays on consciousness by Colin McGinn, professor of philosophy, Rutgers University. He supports the viewpoint that the brain-mind problem is too hard to ever be solved sufficiently. Consciousness cannot be explained by physical sciences, and nor can we propose a theory to fully explains the concept, despite its inherent naturalness. His analysis is very broad, including: subjectivity, intentionality, introspection, mental causation, hidden structue, psychphysiological laws and machine consciousness. (Paperback reprint edition.). Codice articolo 12121

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Titolo: The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards...

Casa editrice: Blackwell Publishers, Oxford

Data di pubblicazione: 1994

Legatura: Brossura

Edizione: Reprint ed.

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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