Consciousness : essays from a higher-order perspective / Peter Carruthers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carruthers, Peter, 1952-

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Peter Carruthers's essays on consciousness and related issues have had a substantial impact on the field, and many of his best are now collected here in revised form. Together they develop, defend, and explore the implications of Carruthers's distinctive theory of experiential consciousness; they discuss the differences between conscious experiencing and conscious thinking; and, controversially, they consider what would follow, either for morality or for comparative psychology, if it should turn out that animals lack conscious experiences. This collection will be of great interest to anyone working in philosophy of mind or cognitive science.

Contents:

Introduction

Reductive explanation and the "explanatory gap"

Natural theories of consciousness

Hop over for, hot theory

Phenomenal concepts and higher-order experiences

Dual-content theory : the explanatory advantages

Conscious thinking : language or elimination?

Conscious experience versus conscious thought

Sympathy and subjectivity

Suffering without subjectivity

Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much

On being simple-minded.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-241) and index.

ISBN:

0199277362

0199277354

OCLC:

58828968

Publisher Number:

9780199277353

9780199277360