This book uses rare pathologies to inform questions on topics such as consciousness and rationality. Rather than trying to answer these by inventing far-fetched scenario or 'thought experiments', it is better to utilize a rich but under-used clinical resource.
This book uses rare pathologies to inform questions on topics such as consciousness and rationality. Rather than trying to answer these by inventing far-fetched scenario or 'thought experiments', it is better to utilize a rich but under-used clinical resource.
Garry Young is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Ethics in the Virtual World: The Morality and Psychology of Gaming, Delusional Misidentification and Transcending Taboos: A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace (co-authored, M.T. Whitty).
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1. Introduction PART I: THE ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN INTENTIONAL ACTION 2. Philosophical Issue 1: Conscious Inessentialism 3. Blindsight and Other Visuomotor Pathologies 4. Philosophical Issue 2: What Makes an Action Intentional? 5. Anarchic Hand 6. Alien Control 7. Philosophical Issue 2 Revisited: Conscious Decision Making and Free Will PART II: THOUGHT, SUBJECTIVITY AND RATIONALITY 8. Philosophical Issue 3: What Makes a Thought My Thought? 9. Thought Insertion 10. Philosophical Issue 4: What is it to be Rational? 11. The Capgras Delusion 12. The Cotard Delusion PART III: KNOWLEDGE HOW AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTION 13. Philosophical Issue 5: Ryle's Dichotomy and the Intellectualist Challenge 14. Visuomotor Pathologies Revisited Epilogue
1. Introduction PART I: THE ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN INTENTIONAL ACTION 2. Philosophical Issue 1: Conscious Inessentialism 3. Blindsight and Other Visuomotor Pathologies 4. Philosophical Issue 2: What Makes an Action Intentional? 5. Anarchic Hand 6. Alien Control 7. Philosophical Issue 2 Revisited: Conscious Decision Making and Free Will PART II: THOUGHT, SUBJECTIVITY AND RATIONALITY 8. Philosophical Issue 3: What Makes a Thought My Thought? 9. Thought Insertion 10. Philosophical Issue 4: What is it to be Rational? 11. The Capgras Delusion 12. The Cotard Delusion PART III: KNOWLEDGE HOW AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTION 13. Philosophical Issue 5: Ryle's Dichotomy and the Intellectualist Challenge 14. Visuomotor Pathologies Revisited Epilogue
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