Metaphysics of Consciousness / Edition 1

Metaphysics of Consciousness / Edition 1

by William Seager
ISBN-10:
0415063574
ISBN-13:
9780415063579
Pub. Date:
12/05/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415063574
ISBN-13:
9780415063579
Pub. Date:
12/05/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Metaphysics of Consciousness / Edition 1

Metaphysics of Consciousness / Edition 1

by William Seager

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Overview

Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental. This "inexplicability" is demonstrated not to be sufficient as refutation of physicalism. However, the inescapable particularity of modes of consciousness appears to overpower this minimal physicalism. This book proposes that such an inference requires either a wholly new conception of how consciousness is physical or a deep and disturbing new kind of physical inexplicability.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415063579
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/05/1991
Series: Philosophical Issues in Science
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1430L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Retreat of Physicalism; Chapter 1 Physicalism, Ontology and Explanation; Chapter 2 Positive Reductive Strategies; Chapter 3 Negative Reductive Strategies; Part 2 The Problem of Consciousness; Chapter 4 Varieties of Supervenience; Chapter 5 Consciousness, Information and Epiphenomenalism; Chapter 6 Consciousness and Causal Efficacy; Chapter 7 Reconciliation and Mystery;
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