Paperback octavo, very good condition, top edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 216 pp. Collected essays on consciousness by Colin McGinn, professor of philosophy, Rutgers University. He supports the viewpoint that the brain-mind problem is too hard to ever be solved sufficiently. Consciousness cannot be explained by physical sciences, and nor can we propose a theory to fully explains the concept, despite its inherent naturalness. His analysis is very broad, including: subjectivity, intentionality, introspection, mental causation, hidden structue, psychphysiological laws and machine consciousness. (Paperback reprint edition.).

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Titre

The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution.

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Blackwell Publishers, Oxford

Date de parution

1994

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0631188037

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780631188032

Reliure

Couverture souple

�dition

Reprint ed.

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Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.

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Colin McGinn was formerly Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind (1981), The Subjective View (1982), Wittgenstein on Meaning (Blackwell, 1984) and Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989).

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