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Author: Ted Honderich (University College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.786kg
ISBN: 9780198714385
ISBN 10: 0198714386
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 10 July 2014
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
I admire Honderich's insightful self-reflective re-examination of the facts of consciousness as he perceives them... That Honderich's discussion of actual consciousness opens so many avenues for philosophical exploration is the measure of its success and likely long-lasting contribution to the study and understanding of consciousness. The book is highly recommended for its topic, approach and new perspectives on the challenging problem of adequately understanding consciousness in a scientific philosophy of mind. For those with minimal objection to countenancing as many actualities as there are perceiving minds, then the subjective actuality of consciousness may have found an ideal situation in Honderich's theory of actual consciousness. Dale Jacquette, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online oddly engaging Australian Book Review, Janna Thompson Honderich's thought in Actual Consciousness is as always entirely accessible... For its genre this is an unusual book, not least, though engagingly, for the virtually 'actual' presence of its author on every page. Honderich's checklists and their interrelations should provide themes for many seminars to come. Philosophy, Alastair Hannay Meticulously researched and extensively cited Guardian This audacious venture should certainly be praised ... good philosophy presses readers to think for themselves, and Actual Consciousness gives us much food for thought Roberta Locatelli, Times Higher Education Oddly engaging ... a good start for a theory of consciousness, and his approach makes sense of what most people assume when they take the reality of their experience for granted. Janna Thompson, Australian Book Review
Meticulously researched and extensively cited Guardian
Author Information
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).
