CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics. Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers. Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos. Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1JOSH WEISBERG AND DAVID ROSENTHAL Part I Problems of Consciousness 15 1 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 17THOMAS NAGEL 2 What Is It Like to Be Boring and Myopic? 25KATHLEEN AKINS 3 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature 52DAVID J. CHALMERS 4 The Explanatory Gap 79JOSEPH LEVINE 5 A Third-Person Approach to Consciousness 94DANIEL C. DENNETT Part II Consciousness and Knowledge 107 6 What Mary Didn’t Know 109FRANK JACKSON 7 In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy 113KATALIN BALOG 8 What Experience Teaches 126DAVID LEWIS Part III Qualitative Consciousness 141 9 On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness 143NED BLOCK 10 The Intrinsic Quality of Experience 175GILBERT HARMAN 11 How to Think about Mental Qualities 186DAVID ROSENTHAL Part IV Theories of Consciousness 203 12 Conscious Experience 205FRED DRETSKE 13 The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of Consciousness 219URIAH KRIEGEL 14 What Kind of Awareness is Awareness of Awareness? 237MICHELLE MONTAGUE 15 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness 249JOSH WEISBERG Part V Agency and Physicalism 263 16 Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity 265SUSANNA SCHELLENBERG 17 The Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience 280MYRTO MYLOPOULOS 18 Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism 294GALEN STRAWSON 19 Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem: A Reply to Strawson 311FIONA MACPHERSON Select Bibliography 322 Index 327
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Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics. Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers. Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos. Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.
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ISBN
9781119669326
Publisert
2022-08-04
Utgiver
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Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
658 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
188 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

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Biographical note

Josh Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston. His work focuses on the philosophy of mind and consciousness studies. He is the author of Consciousness: Key Concepts in Philosophy, an introductory book on the philosophical problem of consciousness, as well as numerous articles on a range of topics in philosophy of mind.

David Rosenthal is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Coordinator of the Graduate Center’s Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. The leading authority on higher-order theories of consciousness, Rosenthal’s work focuses on philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. Series Editor: Steven M. Cahn, City University of New York Graduate School