Science and the riddle of consciousness : a solution / by Jeffrey Foss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foss, Jeff, 1948-

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Place of Consciousness in Science 1

1.1 The Invisibility Barrier 2

1.2 A Solution to the Inverted Spectrum Riddle 11

1.3 Qualia and Complementarity 15

1.4 Method Before Metaphysics 28

1.5 The Completeness Thesis 31

Chapter 2 The Scientific Model and the Genesis of the Riddle 35

2.1 Science and Geometry 36

2.2 Science, Maps, and Models 40

2.3 Physics and the Ontology of Science 55

2.4 Weaving the Riddle: Ex Geometria Solum Geometria 58

Chapter 3 The Manifest Model and the Pythagorean Intuition 69

3.1 The Complementarity Hypothesis 70

3.2 The Manifest Model 75

3.3 Science as the Escape from Self-Centeredness 82

3.4 The Counter-Intuitiveness of the Riddle 94

Chapter 4 Explaining Qualia 97

4.1 Questions and Explanations 98

4.2 Keys and the Manifest Model 105

4.3 What Mary

and Ray

Didn't Know 110

4.4 The Riddle Principle 115

4.5 Explaining the Color Purple 117

Chapter 5 Methodological Foundations of the Science of Consciousness 129

5.1 Disinfecting Introspection 131

5.2 Pain, Pleasure, Fear, and Anger 144

5.3 Complementarity and Method 155

Chapter 6 The Primacy of Method 159

6.1 What We Say In Our Hearts 161

6.2 Seven Methodological Implications 166

6.3 The Bottom Line 178

Chapter 7 Solving the Riddle of Intentionality 185

7.1 Brentano: A Scholastic Excursion 187

7.2 Self-Keying and Self-Centered Coordinates 188

7.3 Pain 192

7.4 Escaping the Cartesian Theater 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0792379365

OCLC:

44619425