Philosophy of Mind

"...a very rich work. It contains, as preliminaries, a nice contribution to the irritatingly nontrivial problem of characterizing materialism, a useful discussion of mental causation, and a critique of David Chalmers' well-known conceivability argument for mind-body dualism." -- Inquiry "Purple Haze is a thought provoking, well-written and honest book. ...I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the problem of consciousness."--Metapsychology Online Review "The American philosopher Joseph Levine explores the 'explanatory gap' between physical sciences and consciousness: conscious phenomena cannot be explained in terms of material phenomena. Levine surveys a number of modern theories of consciousness and finds them inconclusive. In Levine's opinion, that gap will not be filled any time soon." -- Piero Scaruffi, Thymos.com "...a very rich work. It contains, as preliminaries, a nice contribution to the irritatingly nontrivial problem of characterizing materialism, a useful discussion of mental causation, and a critique of David Chalmers' well-known conceivability argument for mind-body dualism." -- Inquiry "Purple Haze is a thought provoking, well-written and honest book. ...I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the problem of consciousness."--Metapsychology Online Review "The American philosopher Joseph Levine explores the 'explanatory gap' between physical sciences and consciousness: conscious phenomena cannot be explained in terms of material phenomena. Levine surveys a number of modern theories of consciousness and finds them inconclusive. In Levine's opinion, that gap will not be filled any time soon." -- Piero Scaruffi, Thymos.com