Raw Feeling A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness

Name: Raw Feeling A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780198240815

ISBN-10: 0198240813

ISBN-13: 9780198240815

Edition: 1994

Authors: Robert Kirk

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Consciousness is a perennial source of mystification in the philosophy of mind: how can processes in the brain amount to conscious experiences? Robert Kirk uses the notion of "raw feeling" to bridge the intelligibility gap between our knowledge of ourselves as physical organisms and our knowledge of ourselves as subjects of experience; he argues that there is no need for recourse to dualism or private mental objects. The task is to understand how the truth about raw feeling could be strictly implied by narrowly physical truths. Kirk's explanation turns on an account of what it is to be a subject of conscious perceptual experience. He offers penetrating analyses of the problems of…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Robert Kirk BScn (Econ) FCA CPA qualified as a charted accountant in Belfast with Price Waterhouse & Co., and spent two years in industry and a further four years in practice. In 1980 he was appointed director of a private teaching college in Dublin where he specialised in the teaching of financial accounting subjects. He later moved into the university sector and is currently Professor of Financial Reporting in the the School of Accounting at the University of Ulster. He also presents continuing professional education courses for various institutes across the UK and Ireland.



Preface



Raw Feeling and the Intelligibility Gap



Is the Notion Sound?



Strict Implication and the Swiss Cheese Principle



Perceptual Information



Conscious Subjects



The Character of Raw Feeling



The Gap Has Been Bridged


Bibliography


Index