Consciousness Revisited
Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
$52.41
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2011
Summary
Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called “the phenomenal-concept strategy,” which holds that we possess a range of special concepts for classifying the subjectiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262516631 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262516632 |
| Author: | Michael Tye, R.L. Kosut, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Consciousness Revisited |
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Critics Review
”[An] impressive contribution to the study of consciousness
[An] impressive contribution to the study of consciousness…I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the study of consciousness and perception.
– Yaron Senderowicz * Pragmatics and Cognition *About The Author
Michael Tye
Michael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ten Problems of Consciousness (1995), Consciousness, Color, and Content (2000), and Consciousness and Persons (2003), all published by the MIT Press.
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