Metaphysics of Consciousness
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.
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Metaphysics of Consciousness
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.
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Metaphysics of Consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness

by William Seager
Metaphysics of Consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness

by William Seager

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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: 9781138009295
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/14/2014
Series: Philosophical Issues in Science
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 891,722
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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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