Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness

Errol E Harris

ISBN 10: 1402043090 / ISBN 13: 9781402043093

Edité par Springer Jan 2006, 2006

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Neuware - The essential and most puzzling problem of consciousness is how the electro-chemical activity constantly occurring in the brain translates into the conscious experience we enjoy. Neither neuro-scientists nor psychologists nor philosophers have so much as tackled this problem head-on, (despite many claims to the contrary) let alone solved it. In this study, Errol Harris considers the attempts that have been made by several important neuro-scientists and philosophers to address the question, and he makes his own suggestions as to how it might be approached with the best prospect of intelligibility.

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• Titre: Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness
• Éditeur: Springer Jan 2006
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402043090
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402043093
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 13 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 13 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 458 grammes

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Synopsis

The relation between body and mind has presented philosophy with its perennial problem. It exercised the minds of Plato and Aristotle and it was implicit in the thought, if not always present to the minds, of the Presocratics. In modern philosophy it became explicit in Descartes's Meditations and remained central to the deliberations of every subsequent philosopher of any significance from Hobbes to Hume, from Spinoza to Hegel, and from Husserl and Heidegger to Russell and Whitehead. From whatever angle one approaches philosophy one cannot avoid this problem. Moral philosophy, both ethical and political, compels one to adopt some conception of human nature, its origins and status within the world, for one cannot decide on the best way to live without considering the impact of natural influences on the human condition and of human behaviour on nature including other humans; and these considerations at once raise the question of the relation of the human mind to Nature and the natural body it enlightens. A philosophy of Nature must include the place of humanity in the natural scheme, not only the human body, but also the knowing mind. Metaphysics cannot be divorced from Epistemology nor can that neglect the part played in the acquisition of knowledge by the bodily senses. And clearly a philosophy of mind must include some vision of the relation of the mind to the body it inhabits.