Overview
The topic of introspection stands at the interface between questions in epistemology about the nature of self-knowledge and questions in the philosophy of mind about the nature of consciousness. What is the nature of introspection such that it provides us with a distinctive way of knowing about our own conscious mental states? And what is the nature of consciousness such that we can know about our own conscious mental states by introspection? How should we understand the relationship between consciousness and introspective self-knowledge? Should we explain consciousness in terms of introspective self-knowledge or vice versa?Until recently, questions in epistemology and the philosophy of mind were pursued largely in isolation from one another. This volume aims to integrate these two lines of research by bringing together fourteen new essays and one reprinted essay on the relationship between introspection, self-knowledge, and consciousness.
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Author: Declan Smithies (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, the Ohio State University) ,
Daniel Stoljar (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780199744794
ISBN 10: 0199744793
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 02 August 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This is a fine volume. Anyone who cares about understanding self-knowledge, consciousness, and the relationship between them will want to lay hold of a copy.""--Matthew Boyle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ""This volume, comprising specially commissioned papers by leading philosophers, represents some of the most rigorous philosophical thinking on consciousness and related issues ... Extensive references after each selection, informative footnotes, and a short index make this book required reading for all who are interested in the philosophical foundations of viable accounts of consciousness. Highly recommended.""--H. Storl, CHOICE ""The essays in Introspection and Consciousness make important contributions to the study of the formal structure of a theory of introspective justification."" --Philosophical Psychology ""This is an excellent collection of essays on introspection and consciousness...There is also an introduction where the editors explain the impetus for the collection and provide a helpful overview. The essays contain a wealth of new and challenging material sure to excite specialists and shape future research."" -- The Philosophical Quarterly"
<br> This is a fine volume. Anyone who cares about understanding self-knowledge, consciousness, and the relationship between them will want to lay hold of a copy. --Matthew Boyle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br>
an excellent collection of essays on introspection and consciousness ... The essays contain a wealth of new and challenging material sure to excite specialists and shape future research Michael Roche and William Roche, The Philosophical Quartely Anyone interested in [introspection] should read this volume. But be warned; although the writing is of a high standard and refreshingly free from unnecessary jargon, the book is demanding. The editors have, though, been kind to us. The introduction is outstanding. Frank Jackson, Australian Book Review
This is a fine volume. Anyone who cares about understanding self-knowledge, consciousness, and the relationship between them will want to lay hold of a copy. --Matthew Boyle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This volume, comprising specially commissioned papers by leading philosophers, represents some of the most rigorous philosophical thinking on consciousness and related issues ... Extensive references after each selection, informative footnotes, and a short index make this book required reading for all who are interested in the philosophical foundations of viable accounts of consciousness. Highly recommended. --H. Storl, CHOICE
Author Information
Declan Smithies is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University and was until recently Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian National University. He received his BA in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Philosophy from New York University. He works on a range of issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, including consciousness, intentionality, concepts, perception, introspection, attention, belief, justification, and knowledge. Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He received his BA from the University of Sydney and his PhD from MIT. He works on a range of issues in philosophy of mind, metaethics, epistemology and metaphysics.
