Consciousness, Function, and Representation Collected Papers

Name: Consciousness, Function, and Representation Collected Papers
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ISBN: 9780262524629

ISBN-10: 0262524627

ISBN-13: 9780262524629

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ned Block

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This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem--a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. One paper on this topic considers the upshot for the mind-body problem of the possibility of a robot that is functionally like us but physically different--as is Commander Data of Star Trek's second generation. The papers on consciousness treat such conceptual issues as phenomenal versus access consciousness, Dennett's theory of consciousness, and the function of consciousness, as well as such empirical matters…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 648
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Introduction: Remarks on Chauvinism and the Mind-Body Problem



Functionalism



Functionalism



What Is Functionalism?



What Psychological States Are Not, with J. Fodor



Troubles with Functionalism



What Intuitions about Homunculi Do Not Show



Concepts of Consciousness



Consciousness



Review of Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained



What Is Dennett's Theory a Theory Of?



On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness



How Many Concepts of Consciousness?



Biology versus Computation in the Study of Consciousness



Ridiculing Social Constructivism about Phenomenal Consciousness



Concepts of Consciousness



Empirical Approaches to Consciousness



How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness



Paradox and Cross-Purposes in Recent Work on Consciousness



Spatial Perception via Tactile Sensation



Two Neural Correlates of Consciousness



Review of Alva Noe, Action in Perception



Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem



Are Absent Qualia Impossible?



The Harder Problem of Consciousness



Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity



Consciousness and Representation



Qualia



Inverted Earth



Mental Paint



Sexism, Racism, Ageism, and the Nature of Consciousness



Is Experiencing Just Representing?



Bodily Sensations as an Obstacle for Representationism


Name Index


Subject Index