Consciousness

Author(s)

• Jackson, Frank

Bibliographic Information

Consciousness

edited by Frank Jackson

（The international research library of philosophy, 20 . The philosophy of logic, language and mind）

Ashgate, c1998

Note

Collected essays from English-language journals

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Brings together some of the most important research publications on the philosophical problem of consciousness. It includes a detailed introduction that surveys the leading issues in the current debate.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Part 1 Phenomenal Feel, Functionalism, and Representation: The inverted spectrum, Sydney Shoemaker
• Goodbye to transposed qualia, Robert Kirk
• The subjective qualities of experience, Michael Tye
• Self-knowledge and 'inner sense': lecture III: the phenomenal character of experience, Sydney Shoemaker
• A representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character, Michael Tye. Part 2 Qualia and Physicalism: The Knowledge Argument: What Mary didn't know, Frank Jackson: A challenge to physicalism, Richard Warner
• Could love be like a heatwave, Janet Levin
• Jackson on physical information and qualia, Terence Horgan
• Reduction, Qualia and the direct introspection of brain states, Paul M. Churchland
• Phenomenal knowledge, Earl Conee. Part 3 Qualia and Physicalism: Absent Qualia and Zombies: Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block, Sydney Shoemaker
• Are absent qualia impossible?, Ned Block
• From physical explicability to full-blooded materialism, Robert Kirk
• Form, function and feel. What must be added to get consciousness of?, William G. Lycan
• Conscious experience, Fred Dretske
• Consciousness and concepts I Robert Kirk
• Consciousness and concepts II, Peter Carruthers. Part 4 Making Physical Sense of Consciousness: Physicalism, consciousness and the antipathetic fallacy, David Papineau
• Lost the plot? Reconstructing Dennett's multiple drafts theory of consciousness, Kathleen Akins
• The message is: there is no medium, Daniel Dennett
• Should a materialist believe in qualia?, David Lewis. Part 5 Pessimism: Can we solve the mind-body problem?, Colin McGinn.

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Details

• NCID: BA37289456
• ISBN:
  • 1855219522
• LCCN: 97018966
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 424 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF311
  • DC21 : 126
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Consciousness
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2010033X