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Nature of Consciousness Philosophical Debates

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ISBN-10: 0262522101

ISBN-13: 9780262522106

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ned J. Block, Owen Flanagan, G�ven G�zeldere

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Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works in neuropsychology) on consciousness through 1997, and includes some forthcoming articles. Its extensive coverage strikes a balance between seminal works of the past few decades and the leading edge of philosophical research on consciousness. As no other anthology currently does, The Nature of Consciousnessprovides a substantial introduction to the field, and imposes structure on a vast and complicated literature, with sections covering stream of…    
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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 885
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Many Faces of Consciousness: A Field Guide
The Stream of Consciousness
The Cartesian Theater and "Filling In" the Stream of Consciousness
The Robust Phenomenology of the Stream of Consciousness
Prospects for a Unified Theory of Consciousness or, What Dreams Are Made Of
Consciousness, Folk Psychology, and Cognitive Science
Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?
Time and the Observer: The Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain
Begging the Question against Phenomenal Consciousness
Time for More Alternatives
Contrastive Phenomenology: A Thoroughly Empirical Approach to Consciousness
Visual Perception and Visual Awareness after Brain Damage: A Tutorial Overview
Understanding Consciousness: Clues from Unilateral Neglect and Related Disorders
Modularity and Consciousness
Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness
Consciousness and Content
Externalism and Experience
A Representational Theory of Pains and Their Phenomenal Character
Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction
Conscious Inessentialism and the Epiphenomenalist Suspicion
On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness
The Path Not Taken
Availability: The Cognitive Basis of Experience?
Fallacies or Analyses?
Two Kinds of Consciousness
Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos? Part II: The Absent Qualia Argument
The Identity Thesis
Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness
A Question about Consciousness
Finding the Mind in the Natural World
Breaking the Hold: Silicon Brains, Conscious Robots, and Other Minds
The First-Person Perspective
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
On Leaving Out What It's Like
Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos? Part I: Phenomenal Knowledge and Explanatory Gaps
What Mary Didn't Know
Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson
What Experience Teaches
Phenomenal States
Quining Qualia
The Inverted Spectrum
The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
Inverted Earth
Curse of the Qualia
What Is Consciousness?
A Theory of Consciousness
Consciousness as Internal Monitoring
Conscious Experience
Is Consciousness the Perception of What Passes in One's Own Mind?
References to Introduction
Suggested Readings compiled by Guven Guzeldere
Index