UID:
almahu_9949179520702882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Advances in Consciousness Research, Volume 95
Inhalt:
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked "What is a man?" and replied that a man is "a certain sort of material object". This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Consciousness and Object -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A materialist theory of the mind -- 2. Naïve materialism -- 2.1 The standard view -- 2.2 The digestive model of the mind -- 2.3 The hallucinatory model of perception -- 2.4 Physiological minds and mechanical worlds -- 2.5 The object-object problem -- 2.6 Inner man and inner world -- 2.7 Am I my body? -- 3. Consciousness and nature -- 3.1 Neural local supervenience and internalism -- 3.2 Brain in a vat are no starters -- 3.3 Misperception by and large -- 3.4 Mental and physical are different -- 3.5 The issue of representation and the vehicle/content dichotomy -- 3.6 Appearance vs reality -- 4. A mind-object identity theory -- 4.1 Identity theories and consciousness -- 4.2 brainbound -- 4.3 objectbound -- 4.4 Where am I? -- 4.5 Mind and world -- 4.6 The inner world is outside -- 4.7 Linguistic boobytraps -- 4.8 There's no distance between experience and world -- 5. The actual object -- 5.1 Actual objects vs naïve objects -- 5.2 Existence and causation -- 5.3 The joint cause -- 5.4 Relative existence -- 5.5 Bodies are object-makers -- 5.6 Actual objects and time -- 5.7 A hoard of actual objects -- 5.8 Spatiotemporal objects -- 6. Consciousness, body, and world -- 6.1 The actual world -- 6.2 Brains are never isolated -- 6.3 Causal carvings -- 6.4 Temporal unfolding -- 6.5 Causal simultaneity -- 6.6 Present and past are relative -- 6.7 Time lag debunked -- 7. All experience is identity -- 7.1 Modes of perception -- 7.2 A taxonomy for hallucinations -- 7.3 Hallucinations and dreams -- 7.4 Identity and hallucination -- 7.5 The common-kind assumption turned upside down -- 7.6 Illusions -- 8. Neuroscientific evidence -- 8.1 Penfield and direct brain stimulation -- 8.2 Congenitally blind subjects and visual experience.
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8.3 Hallucinations caused by sensory blockage -- 8.4 Persisting objects -- 8.5 Filtering the world: The case of afterimages -- 8.6 Supersaturated red and other impossible colors -- 9. Subjectivity reloaded -- 9.1 Is the phenomenal physical? -- 9.2 One kind of property to rule them all -- 9.3 Subjective and objective are relative -- 9.4 Measurement and causality -- 9.5 Experience and knowledge -- 9.6 Perceptual error -- 9.7 Incorrigibility -- 9.8 Feeling vs functioning -- 10. A reduction -- 10.1 The hard problem -- 10.2 Intentionality or aboutness -- 10.3 What it is like to be something -- 10.4 Points of view and perspectivalness -- 10.5 Semantics is identity -- Anchor 55 -- 11. A comparison with other views -- 11.1 Idealism -- 11.2 Enactivism -- 11.3 Direct realism -- 11.4 Russellian monism -- 11.5 Panpsychism -- 11.6 Soul-less Descartes -- 12. The last blow to the narcissism of man -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-1362-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 90-272-6509-7
Sprache:
Englisch
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