Consciousness and its objects

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Consciousness and its objects

Colin McGinn

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published in paperback 2006"--T.p. verso

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内容説明

Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable. He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions. McGinn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionality. He argues that traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existent objects. These are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideas.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. What Constitutes the Mind-Body Problem?
  • 2. How Not to Solve the Mind-Body Problem
  • 3. Solving the Philosophical Mind-Body Problem
  • 4. What Is It Not Like to be a Brain?
  • 5. Consciousness and Space
  • 6. Consciousness, Atomism, and the Ancient Greeks
  • 7. Consciousness and Cosmology: Hyperdualism Ventilated
  • 8. The Problem of Philosophy
  • 9. Inverted First-Person Authority
  • 10. The Objects of Intentionality

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA78352189
  • ISBN
    • 0199297630
  • LCCN
    2004300278
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Oxford,New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    256 p.
  • 大きさ
    21cm
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