The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness

by Uriah Kriegel (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness provides the most comprehensive overview of current philosophical research on consciousness. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent experts in the field, it explores the wide range of types of consciousness there may be, the many psychological phenomena with which consciousness interacts, and the various views concerning the ultimate relationship between consciousness and physical reality. It is an essential and authoritative resource for anyone working in philosophy of mind or interested in states of consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191066597
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/10/2020
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	704
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Uriah Kriegel is Professor of Philosophy at Rice University and a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. He is the author of many articles on consciousness, as well as four books: Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (OUP, 2009), The Sources of Intentionality (OUP, 2011), The Varieties of Consciousness (OUP, 2015), and Brentano's Philosophical System: Mind, Being, Value (OUP, 2018).

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is the Philosophy of Consciousness?, Uriah Kriegel
1. The Problem of Consciousness, David Papineau
2. Visual Experience, P r Sundstr m
3. Non-Visual Perception, Casey O Callaghan
4. Bodily Feelings, Fr d rique de Vignemont
5. Emotional Experience: Affective Consciousness and its Role in Emotion theory, Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni
6. Imaginative Experience, Amy Kind
7. Conscious Thought, Tim Bayne
8. The Experience of Agency, Myrto Mylopoulos and Joshua Shepherd
9. Temporal Consciousness, Philippe Chuard
10. The Phenomenal Unity of Consciousness, Farid Masrour
11. The Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Jorge Morales and Hakwan Lau
12. Beyond the Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Uriah Kriegel
13. Dualism: How Epistemic Issues Drive Debates About the Ontology of Consciousness, Brie Gertler
14. Russellian Monism, Philip Goff and Sam Coleman
15. Idealism: Putting Qualia to Work, Michael Pelczar
16. Eliminativism About Consciousness, Mark Sprevak and Elizabeth Irvine
17. A Priori Physicalism, Frank Jackson
18. A Posteriori Physicalism: Type-B Materialism and the Explanatory Gap, Joseph Levine
19. Representionalism About Consciousness, Adam Pautz
20. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, Josh Weisberg
21. Self-Representationalist Theories of Consciousness, Tom McClelland
22. The Epistemic Approach to the Problem of Consciousness, Daniel Stoljar
23. Consciousness and Attention, Christopher Mole
24. Consciousness and Memory, Christopher S. Hill
25. Consciousness and Action: Contemporary Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism, Benjamin Kozuch
26. Consciousness and Intentionality, Angela Mendelovici and David Bourget
27. Consciousness and Knowledge, Berit Brogaard and Elijah Chudnoff
28. Consciousness, Introspection, and Subjective Measures, Maja Spener
29. Consciousness and Selfhood: Getting Clearer on for-Me-Ness and Mineness, Dan Zahavi
30. Consciousness and Morality, Joshua Shepherd and Neil Levy
31. Embodied Consciousness, Mark Rowlands

Editorial Reviews

"On the whole this is a rich and inspiring volume." — Robert Zaborowski, daily philosophy

"... an excellent, very comprehensive survey and discussion of recent work in the philosophy of consciousness, with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists, in the major aspects of an area with ramifications at least into epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. I strongly recommend it." — Inês Morais , Forma de Vida

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