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Sisyphus’s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable - Couverture rigide

Dietrich, Eric; Hardcastle, Valerie Gray

 
9789027251961: Sisyphus’s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027251967 ISBN 13 : 9789027251961
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2005

Synopsis

Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained. Consequently, philosophical debates over materialism and dualism are a waste of time. Scientific explanations of consciousness fare no better. Scientists do study consciousness, and such investigations will continue to grow and advance. However, none of them will ever reveal what consciousness is. In addition, given the centrality of consciousness in philosophy, Dietrich and Hardcastle claim that philosophy itself needs to change. That the central problems of philosophy persist is actually a profound epistemic fact about humans. Philosophy, then, is a limit to what humans can understand. (Series A)

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Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained. Consequently, philosophical debates over materialism and dualism are a waste of time. Scientific explanations of consciousness fare no better. Scientists do study consciousness, and such investigations will continue to grow and advance. However, none of them will ever reveal what consciousness is. In addition, given the centrality of consciousness in philosophy, Dietrich and Hardcastle claim that philosophy itself needs to change. That the central problems of philosophy persist is actually a profound epistemic fact about humans. Philosophy, then, is a limit to what humans can understand. (Series A)

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027251967
ISBN 13 
9789027251961
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
148
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