Reference and Consciousness - Couverture rigide

Campbell, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199243808 ISBN 13 : 9780199243808

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Cambell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to attend selectively to the objects of which we are aware; that this capacity for conscious attention to a perceived object is what provides us with our knowledge of reference. When someone makes a reference to a perceived object, your knowledge of which thing they are talking about is constituted by your consciously attending to the relevant object. Campbell articulates the connections between these three concepts: reference, attention, and consciousness. He looks at the metaphysical conception of the environment demanded by such an account, and at the demands imposed on our conception of consciousness by the point that consciousness of objects is what explains our capacity to think about them. He argues that empirical work on the binding problem can illuminate our grasp of the way in which we have knowledge of reference, supplied by conscious attention to the relevant object.
Reference and Consciousness illuminates fundamental problems about thought, reference, and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends. It is an original and stimulating contribution to philosophy and cognitive science.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Campbell is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199243808
• ISBN 13: 9780199243808
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible