Consciousness Explained

Name: Consciousness Explained
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ISBN: 9780316180665

ISBN-10: 0316180661

ISBN-13: 9780316180665

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Authors: Daniel C. Dennett

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Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes--that we know subjectively, from the inside. On the other hand, such facts are not readily accommodated in the objective world described by science. How, after all, could the reediness of clarinets or the tartness of lemonade be predicted in advance? Central to Daniel C. Dennett's attempt to resolve this dilemma is the "heterophenomenological" method, which treats reports of introspection nontraditionally--not as evidence to be used in explaining consciousness, but as data to be explained. Using this method, Dennett argues against the…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 10/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.25" long x 1.55" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Matthew M. Hurley is currently researching teleology and agency at the Center for Research onConcepts and Cognition at Indiana University.Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy atTufts University. He is the author of Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Scienceof Consciousness (MIT Press) and other books.