Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind

Tye, Michael

ISBN 10: 0262700646 / ISBN 13: 9780262700641

Editore: Stati Uniti d''d'America, MIT Press, Stati Uniti d''d'America, 1997

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Titolo: Ten Problems of Consciousness: A ...

Casa editrice: Stati Uniti d''d'America, MIT Press, Stati Uniti d''d'America

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: brossura paperback

Condizione: Ottimo (Fine)

Tipologia articolo: Book

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Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a new and enlightening theory about the phenomenal "what it feels like" aspect of consciousness. The test of any such theory, according to Tye, lies in how well it handles ten critical problems of consciousness.

Tye argues that all experiences and all feelings represent things, and that their phenomenal aspects are to be understood in terms of what they represent. He develops this representational approach to consciousness in detail with great ingenuity and originality. In the book's first part Tye lays out the domain, the ten problems and an associated paradox, along with all the theories currently available and the difficulties they face. In part two, he develops his intentionalist approach to consciousness. Special summaries are provided in boxes and the ten problems are illustrated with cartoons.

A Bradford Book

Representation and Mind series

Informazioni sull?autore:

Michael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ten Problems of Consciousness (1995), Consciousness, Color, and Content (2000), and Consciousness and Persons (2003), all published by the MIT Press.