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Published: 16th August 2007In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative and radical account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology, and cognitive science.
'Enter The Nature of Consciousness, a book filled with scholarly argument, well-developed - but also well-defined - complex jargon, excellent critique of all the previous important works of the field (thought experiments included) and written by a philosophy lecturer. This book is required reading not only for those wanting to get to grips with what is going on in consciousness studies, but for those who are dissatisfied with the current accounts ...' Metapsychology
| Preface | |
| The problem of phenomenal consciousness | |
| Consciousness and supervenience | |
| The explanatory gap | |
| Consciousness and higher-order experience | |
| Consciousness and higher-order thoughts | |
| The structure of consciousness | |
| What it is like | |
| Against objectualism II: mistakes about the way things seem | |
| Consciousness and representation | |
| Consciousness and the natural order | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521808583
ISBN-10: 0521808588
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 26th November 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.55
