Real materialism and other essays / Galen Strawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, Galen.

Contributor:

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

viii, 478 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Real Materialism draws together a selection of papers written over twenty years by Galen Strawson in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Strawson focuses on five main areas of enquiry: [1] the nature of the physical, consciousness, the 'mind-body problem', and the prospects for panpsychism; [2] the subject of experience, self-consciousness, and the 'narrative' self; [3] free will and moral responsibility; [4] the nature of thought and intentionality and their connection with consciousness; [5] the problem of causation with particular reference to the philosophy of David Hume.

Contents:

Introduction

Real materialism

Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism

Can we know the nature of reality as it is In itself?

Red and 'Red'

Self, body, and experience

What is the relation between an experience, the subject of the experience, and the content of the experience?

Against narrativity

Episodic ethics

Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity

Intentionality and experience: terminological preliminaries

Real intentionality 3: why intentionality entails consciousness

On the inevitability of freedom from the compatibilist point of view

The impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility

Consciousness, free will, and the unimportance of determinism

Free agents

Realism and causation

The contingent reality of natural necessity

David Hume: objects and power

Epistemology, semantics, ontology, and David Hume.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-468) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

ISBN:

9780199267422

0199267421

9780199267439

019926743X

OCLC:

191009668