What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways.
What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, past chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and visiting professor at Yale and the CUNY Graduate Centre, came to England from Canada as a graduate student. He has lived in London for most of his life, and lectured in much of Europe and the East. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (second edition; OUP, 2005), How Free Are You? (second edition; OUP, 2002), and The Philosophers (OUP, 1999).
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Need for an Adequate Initial Clarification * 2: Five Leading Ideas About Consciousness * 3: Something's Being Actual * 4: Dualisms, Functionalisms, Consciousness-Criteria * 5: Other Consciousness Theories, Criteria Again * 6: What It Is To Be Objectively Physical * 7: Perceptual Consciousness--What Is and Isn't Actual * 8: Perceptual Consciousness--Being Actual Is Being Subjectively Physical * 9: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Theories, and What Is And Isn't Actual * 10: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Being Actual is Being Differently Subjectively Physical * 11: Conclusions Past and Present * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Need for an Adequate Initial Clarification * 2: Five Leading Ideas About Consciousness * 3: Something's Being Actual * 4: Dualisms, Functionalisms, Consciousness-Criteria * 5: Other Consciousness Theories, Criteria Again * 6: What It Is To Be Objectively Physical * 7: Perceptual Consciousness--What Is and Isn't Actual * 8: Perceptual Consciousness--Being Actual Is Being Subjectively Physical * 9: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Theories, and What Is And Isn't Actual * 10: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Being Actual is Being Differently Subjectively Physical * 11: Conclusions Past and Present * Bibliography * Index
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