Consciousness And The Ontology Of Properties

Author : Mihretu P. Guta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351598897

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Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties by Mihretu P. Guta Pdf

This book aims to show the centrality of a proper ontology of properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of our experience—such as how a strawberry tastes—arise from brain states? More recently, philosophers have incorporated what seems like promising empirical research from neuroscience and cognitive psychology in an attempt to bridge the gap between measurable mental states on the one hand, and phenomenal qualities on the other. In Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties, many of the leading philosophers working on this issue, as well as a few emerging scholars, have written 14 new essays on this problem. The essays address topics as diverse as substance dualism, mental causation, the metaphysics of artificial intelligence, the logic of conceivability, constitution, extended minds, the emergence of consciousness, and neuroscience and the unity and neural correlates of consciousness, but are nonetheless unified in a collective objective: the need for a proper ontology of properties to understand the hard problem of consciousness, both on non-empirical and empirical grounds.

Author : Mihretu P. Guta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1315104709

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Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties by Mihretu P. Guta Pdf

Author : Alexander Batthyány,Avshalom Elitzur
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110325683

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Mind and its Place in the World by Alexander Batthyány,Avshalom Elitzur Pdf

What is mind? What is its relationship to the physical world? Is consciousness a causative agent in the physical world? With much progress being made in the neurosciences, many have thought that these questions could be answered by reducing them to questions about physical systems such as the brain. But this approach has foundered on the core problem of consciousness: Why is it that some brain processes are accompanied by conscious awareness? This anthology points out new sources and unexamined paths of consciousness research. By presenting a wide spectrum of non-reductive theories, the volume endeavours to overcome the dichotomy between dualism and monism that keeps plaguing the debate in favour of new and more differentiated positions.

Author : Josh Weisberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780745686639

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Consciousness by Josh Weisberg Pdf

Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately physical. The challenge of fitting consciousness into our modern scientific worldview, of taking the subjective “feel” of conscious experience and showing that it is just neural activity in the brain, is among the most intriguing explanatory problems of our times. In this book, Josh Weisberg presents the range of contemporary responses to the philosophical problem of consciousness. The basic philosophical tools of the trade are introduced, including thought experiments featuring Mary the color-deprived super scientist and fearsome philosophical “zombies”. The book then systematically considers the space of philosophical theories of consciousness. Dualist and other “non-reductive” accounts of consciousness hold that we must expand our basic physical ontology to include the intrinsic features of consciousness. Functionalist and identity theories, by contrast, hold that with the right philosophical stage-setting, we can fit consciousness into the standard scientific picture. And “mysterians” hold that any solution to the problem is beyond such small-minded creatures as us. Throughout the book, the complexity of current debates on consciousness is handled in a clear and concise way, providing the reader with a fine introductory guide to the rich philosophical terrain. The work makes an excellent entry point to one of the most exciting areas of study in philosophy and science today.

Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441199096

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The Philosophy of Mind by Dale Jacquette Pdf

In Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette provides students and professionals with a concise and accessible overview of this fascinating subject. The book covers all the key topics and debates in the philosophy of mind and introduces the full range of choices available in approaching the mind-body problem. Exploring classical and contemporary texts, the book surveys the subject's historical background and current applications. Crucially, Jacquette offers a defence of property dualism as an alternative solution to the mind-body problem, instead of the mainstream eliminativist and reductivist strategies. Clearly structured and featuring useful diagrams, a glossary of key terms, and advice on further reading, the book is ideal for classroom use. Fully revised, updated and expanded to meet the needs of a new generation of philosophy students, this second edition is the ideal companion to the study of the philosophy of mind.

Author : Leopold Stubenberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027283498

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Consciousness and Qualia by Leopold Stubenberg Pdf

This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having is problematical because none of the typical candidates for this relation — introspection, inner monitoring, higher level thoughts — is capable of explaining what it looks like to have a quale . The qualia problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of phenomenal objects. Phenomenal objects are bundles of qualia. Thus there is no need for independent qualia bearers. The having problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of the self. To have a quale is for it to be in the bundle one is. Thus no further relations are needed to explain how qualia are had. This study strives for phenomenological adequacy. Thus the first-person point of view dominates throughout. (Series A)

Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139430982

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The Nature of Consciousness by Mark Rowlands Pdf

In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative 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.

Author : Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Imprint Academic
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0907845185

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The Emergence of Consciousness by Anthony Freeman Pdf

A collection of essays on the relation between the conscious mind and the body. In this text, philosopher Robert Van Gulick gives a clear overview and comparison on "emergent" and "reductive" approaches, while others discuss more detailed aspects.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199267606

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Consciousness and Its Objects by Colin McGinn Pdf

Colin McGinn presents work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays which extend and deepen his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable.

Author : Matthew Soteriou
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191667879

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The Mind's Construction by Matthew Soteriou Pdf

Philosophers working on the ontology of mind have highlighted various distinctions that can be drawn between the ways in which different aspects of our minds fill time. For example, they note that whereas some elements of our mental lives obtain over time, others unfold over time, and some continue to occur throughout intervals of time. Matthew Soteriou explores ways in which such distinctions can be put to work in helping to inform philosophical accounts of both sensory and cognitive aspects of consciousness. Part One of The Mind's Construction argues that work in the ontology of mind that focuses on distinctions of temporal character has much to contribute to philosophical accounts of the phenomenology of various elements of sensory consciousness—e.g. the phenomenology of perceptual experience, bodily sensation, and perceptual imagination. Part Two argues that these ontological considerations can inform our understanding of conscious thinking, and the form of self-conscious consciousness that we have as subjects capable of engaging in such activity, by helping to account for and explain the respect in which agency is exercised in conscious thinking. This in turn, it is argued, can illuminate the more general issue of the place and role of mental action in an account of the metaphysics of mind.

Author : Harold L. Langsam
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262015851

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The Wonder of Consciousness by Harold L. Langsam Pdf

An argument that what makes consciousness wonderful is its intelligibility.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631188037

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The Problem of Consciousness by Colin McGinn Pdf

Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what d does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.

Author : David Papineau
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191529481

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Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau Pdf

The relation between subjective consciousness and the physical brain is widely regarded as the last mystery facing science. This book argues that there is no real puzzle here. Consciousness seems mysterious, not because of any hidden essence, but only because we think about it in a special way. David Papineau exposes the resulting potential for confusion, and shows that much scientific study of consciousness is misconceived. Modern physical science strongly supports a materialist account of consciousness. But there remains considerable resistance to this, both in philosophy and in the way most people think about the mind; we fall back on a dualist view, that consciousness is not part of the material world. Papineau argues that resistance to materialism is groundless. He offers a detailed analysis of the way human beings think about consciousness, and in particular the way in which we humans think about our conscious states by activating those selfsame states. His careful account of this distinctive mode of phenomenal thinking enables him, first, to show that the standard arguments against dualism are unsound, second, to explain why dualism is nevertheless so intuitively persuasive, and third, to expose much contemporary scientific study of consciousness as resting on a confusion. In placing a materialist account of consciousness on a firm foundation, this clear and forthright book lays many traditional problems to rest, and offers escape from immemorial misconceptions about the mind.

Author : Josh Weisberg,David Rosenthal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119669326

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Consciousness by Josh Weisberg,David Rosenthal Pdf

CONSCIOUSNESS Consciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics. Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers. Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos. Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.

Author : William Seager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134923199

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Metaphysics of Consciousness by William Seager Pdf

Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental. This "inexplicability" is demonstrated not to be sufficient as refutation of physicalism. However, the inescapable particularity of modes of consciousness appears to overpower this minimal physicalism. This book proposes that such an inference requires either a wholly new conception of how consciousness is physical or a deep and disturbing new kind of physical inexplicability.