On consciousness. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ted Honderich.
• Authors: Honderich, Ted
• Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Anomalous Monism, and the Champion of Mauve; 1 From an Inconsistent Triad to a Mind-Brain Identity Theory; 2 Causally-Relevant Properties and Lawlike Connection; 3 A Dilemma with Epiphenomenalism in It; 4 The Worth of Being Mauve; 2 The Thinking of Some Neuroscientific Friends; 1 The Correlation Hypothesis, and Alternatives; 2 Non-Mental Causation of Neural Events, and of Actions; 3 Wittgensteinian Objections to Correlation; 4 Objections from Holism, Indeterminacy and Rationality; 5 The Mental Efficacy Problem, and Identity Theories; 6 Mental Efficacy, Fly in the Ointment; 3 Cognitive Science's Philosophy, and the Union Theory; 1 What Functionalism Is Not, And Is; 2 Functionalism as Unswallowable; 3 Functionalism as Incoherent; 4 Mental Realism, Subjectivity, Psychoneural Intimacy; 5 The Union Theory; 4 Anti-Individualism v. the Union Theory; 1 The Mind-Brain Union Theory etc.; 2 The Surprising Meaning of the Word `page`; 3 Replies about Meaning; 4 Arthritis in the Thigh; 5 What the Theory Comes To; 5 Consciousness and Humble Truths; 1 Deep and Murky Water; 2 Physicality and Levels; 3 Subjectivities and Unities; 4 Intentionality; 5 Conclusions, Outrageous Postscript; 6 Dualism, Monism, Outrageousness; 6 Seeing Things; 1 Subject and Content; 2 Content and World -- Relations of Representation; 3 Non-Mental Representations; 4 Representative Contents as Impressions; 5 Help From Subject and Content, and Unmediated Awareness?; 6 The Givenness of the World; 7 Contents as Transparent; 7 Consciousness as the Existence of a World; 1 Leaving Consciousness Out, Or Trying To; 2 The Existence of a World; 3 A Mental World?; 4 My World of Perceptual Consciousness and the Physical World; 5 Consciousness as Existence; 8 The Theory Embarked On; 1 Naturalism and Subjectivity; 2 Subjectivity and the Mind-Body Problem; 3 Historical Theories, Brains in Vats; 4 Something Left Out?; 9 The End of Intentionality in Perceptual Consciousness; 1 A Good Start But a Blunder?; 2 Conscious Contents, Unconscious Contents, Intensionality; 3 Two Relations, a Causal Story; 4 Being Given to the Mind; 5 Contents as Experiences; 6 A Mess;; 10 Reflective and Affective Consciousness; 1 The Inescapable Criteria; 2 The Sort of Theory of Perceptual Consciousness; 3 Reflective Consciousness, Possible Worlds, Concepts Etc.; 4 Reflective Consciousness as Existence -- Outer Representations; 5 Reflective Consciousness -- Inner Representations; 6 Affective Consciousness as Existence -- Inner Representations; 7 Uncertainties and a Certainty; 11 Spiritualism, Devout Physicalism, Vats, Science; 1 Alternatives; 2 Representative Theory, Realist Theory; 3 Deluded Brains in Vats; 4 Consciousness as Baffling; 5 Neuroscience and Some Attendant Philosophy; 6 Postscript on Reconstruction; Acknowledgements; Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 230 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 126; Consciousness; Philosophy of mind; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Consciousness; Philosophy of mind; Philosophie; Bewustzijn; Bewusstsein; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474469289; 1474469280
• Related ISBNs: 0748618422; 9780748618422
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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