Overview

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for several decades, but, despite substantial progress, the most difficult problems have still not reached any generally agreed solution. This text aims to act as a starting point towards future research.

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Author:   Quentin Smith (, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University) ,  Aleksandar Jokic (, Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education at Santa Barbara City College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.909kg
ISBN:  

9780199241286

ISBN 10:   0199241287
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   23 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Intentionality and Phenomenal Content1: Michael Tye: Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism? 2: Tim Crane: The Intentional Structure of Consciousness 3: Joseph Levine: Experience and Representation 4: Brian Loar: Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia 5: Brian P. McLaughlin: Color, Consciousness, and Color Consciousness Knowing Mental States6: Shaul Nichols and Stephen Stich: How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness 7: Kristin Andrews: Knowing Mental States: The Asymmetry of Psychological Prediction and Explanation 8: David Chalmers: The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief 9: Ernest Sosa: Privileged Access Consciousness and the Brain10: James Fetzer: Consciousness and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds 11: Robert Van Gulick: Maps, Gaps, and Traps 12: David Papineau: Theories of Consciousness 13: William Lycan: Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument 14: Anthony Brueckner and E. Beroukhim: McGinn on Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness15: Quentin Smith: Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics 16: Michael Lockwood: Consciousness and the Quantum World: Putting Qualia on the Map 17: Don Page: Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness 18: Barry Loewer: Consciousness and Quantum Theory: Strange Bedfellows

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