Purple Haze The Puzzle of Consciousness

Name: Purple Haze The Puzzle of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780195132359

ISBN-10: 0195132351

ISBN-13: 9780195132359

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph Levine

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Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious experience. In this wide-ranging study, Joseph Levine explores both sides of the mind-body dilemma, presenting the first book-length treatment of his highly influential ideas on the 'explanatory gap', the fact that we can't explain the nature of phenomenal experience in terms of its physical realization. He presents a careful argument that there is such a gap, and, after providing intriguing analyses of…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/4/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 8.80" wide x 6.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



"All in My Brain" Materialism



"Lately Things Don't Seem the Same" The Conceivability Argument



"Actin' Funny, but I Don't Know Why" The Explanatory Gap



"Don't Know If I'm Comin' Up or Down" Reductive Strategies



"You've Got Me Blowin', Blowin' My Mind" Eliminativism



"Purple Haze, All Around" Consciousness and Cognition


Coda: "Is It Tomorrow, or Just the End of Time?"


Notes


References


Index