David M. Rosenthal

Consciousness and Mind

Herausgeber: Rosenthal, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rosenthal argues that, because this account of mental qualities makes no appeal to consciousness, it enables us to dispel such traditional quandaries as the alleged conceivability of undetectable quality inversion, and to disarm various apparent obstacles to explaining qualitative consciousness and understanding its nature. Six further essays build on the HOT theory, to explain various important features of consciousness, among them the complex connections that hold in humans between consciousness and speech, the self-interpretative aspect of consciousness, and the compelling sense we have that consciousness is unified. Two of the essays, one an extended treatment of homomorphism theory, appear here for the first time. There is also a substantive introduction, which draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications.

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David Rosenthal is one of the leading contributors to the philosophical study of consciousness. This volume gathers together his work on the subject from the past two decades, and represents the definitive presentation of his influential theory of consciousness as higher-order thought. Two of the essays appear here for the first time; there is also a substantial new introduction, drawing out the connections between the essays and highlighting their implications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780198236962
• ISBN-10: 0198236964
• Artikelnr.: 21431601

Autorenporträt

Edited by David Rosenthal, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Explaining Consciousness
1: Two Concepts of Consciousness
2: Thinking that One Thinks
3: Intentionality
4: Introspection and Self-Interpretation
II. Qualitative Consciousness and Homomorphism Theory
5: The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality
6: Sensory Quality and the Relocation Story
7: Sensory Qualities, Consciousness, and Perception
III. Consciousness, Expression, and Interpretation
8: First-Person Operationalism and Mental Taxonomy
9: Moore's Paradox and Consciousness
10: Why Are Verbally Expressed Thoughts Conscious?
11: Consciousness and its Expression
12: Content, Intepretation, and Consciousness
IV. Self-Consciousness
13: Unity of Consciousness and the Self
Select Bilbiography
Index