The Bloomsbury companion to the philosophy of consciousness
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The Bloomsbury companion to the philosophy of consciousness
（Bloomsbury companions）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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The philosophy of consciousness
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history and up-to-date overview of this burgeoning subject area.
Acknowledging that many of the original concepts of consciousness studies are found in writings of past thinkers, it begins with introductory overviews to the thought of Descartes through to Kant, covering Brentano's restoration of empiricism to philosophical psychology and the major figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Russell, Wittgenstein, Ryle and James. These opening chapters on the forces in the history of consciousness lay the groundwork needed to understand how influential contemporary thinkers in the philosophy of mind interpret the concept of consciousness.
Featuring leading figures in the field, Part II discusses current issues in a range of topics progressing from the so-called hard problem of understanding the nature of consciousness, to the methodology of invoking the possibility of philosophical zombies and the prospects of reductivism in philosophy of mind. Part III is dedicated to new research directions in the philosophy of consciousness, including chapters on experiment objections to functionalism and the scope and limits of artificial intelligence.
Equipped with practical research resources including an annotated bibliography, a research guide and a glossary, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness is an authoritative guide for studying the past, present and future of consciousness.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Philosophy of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette
Part I: Historical Development
2. The Hard Problem of Understanding Descartes on Consciousness - Katherine Morris
3. Brentano's Aristotelian Concept of Consciousness - Liliana Albertazzi
4. Wittgenstein and the Concept of Consciousness - Garry L. Hagberg
5. 'Ordinary' Consciousness - Julia Tanney
Part II: Groundbreaking Concepts of Consciousness
6. Consciousness, Representation and the Hard Problem - Keith Lehrer
7. The Knowledge Argument and Two Interpretations of 'Knowing What it's Like' - Daniel Stoljar
8. Conscious and Unconscious Mental States - Richard Fumerton
9. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness - Rocco Gennaro
10. Kripke on Mind-Body Identity - Scott Soames
Part III: Metaphilosophy of Consciousness Studies
11. Understanding Consciousness by Building It - Michael Graziano and Taylor W. Webb
12. The Illusion of Conscious Thought - Peter Caruthers
13. Actualism About Consciousness Reaffirmed - Ted Honderich
14. Cracking the Hard Problem of Consciousness - Dale Jacquette
Part IV: Mental Causation, Natural Law, and Intentionality of Conscious States
15. Towards Axiomatizing Consciousness - Selmer Bringsjord and Paul Bello
16. Intentionality and Consciousness - Carlo Ierna
17. Cognitive Approaches to Phenomenal Consciousness - Peter Mandik
18. Free Will and Consciousness - Alfred Mele
19. Notes Toward a Metaphysics of Mind - Joseph Margolis
Part V: Resources
20. Annotated Bibliography
21. Research Resources
22. A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts
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