| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in consciousness research,
1381-589X ;
v. 21
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Advances in consciousness research ; v. 21.
1381-589X
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Phenomenology Problem -- Metaphysical Problem -- Need to Go Beyond -- Nonconceptual Experience -- A Preliminary Case for Nonconceptual Experience -- Ancient Pedigree of Nonconceptualism -- Some Reasons to Think Experience is Nonconceptual -- Perceptual Illusions and Noticing Aspects -- Imagery Debate -- Fine-grainedness of Experience -- Experience, Conceptual Description and Theory -- Conceptual Expression of Experience -- Role of Experience in Interpretation -- On Simulation and Basic Communality -- Off-line Processing Proposal -- Introspective Modelling Proposal -- Nonsensicality of Behavioural Meaning -- From a Sensational Point of View -- Is Experience Theory-Resistant? -- Verstehen Version of the What-it-is-like Argument -- Failings of the Knowledge Argument -- Know How = Experience and Ability -- Virtues of the Knowledge Argument -- Rejecting the Strong Representationalist Thesis -- Rejection of Standard Representational Theories -- Best of Intentionality -- Subject and Subjectivity -- Representationalist Dilemma -- Changing the Subject -- Avoiding the Subject -- Failure of Explanatory Physicalism -- Functionalism and the Why-Question -- Abstract Functionalism -- Homuncular Teleofunctionalism -- From Functionalism to Physicalism -- What's the Matter with Explanatory Physicalism? -- Reductive Physicalism -- Criterion Objection -- Multiple Realizability Objection -- Intelligibility Objection -- Eliminativist Physicalism. |
| Summary |
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience. In particular, it argues that the subjectivity of experience cannot be understood in representationalist terms. This is important, for it is because many philosophers fail to come to terms with subjectivity that they are at a loss to provide a convincing solution to the mind-body problem. In this li. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Consciousness. |
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Consciousness. |
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Philosophy. |
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Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutto, Daniel D. Beyond physicalism. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000 1556194374 (DLC) 00022533 (OCoLC)44732200 |
| ISBN |
9789027283436 (electronic book) |
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9027283435 (electronic book) |
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902725141X |
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9789027251411 |
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1556194374 |
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9781556194375 |
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902725141X |
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9789027251411 |
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