Self-representational approaches to consciousness / edited by Uriah Kriegel and Kenneth Williford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kriegel, Uriah.

Williford, Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Mental representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) and the higher-order monitoring (HOM) theory, combining elements of both RTC and HOM theory in a novel fashion that may avoid the fundamental deficiencies of each. Although self-representationalist views have been common throughout the history of both Western and Eastern philosophy, they have been largely neglected in the recent literature on consciousness. This book approaches the self-representational theory from a range of perspectives, with contributions from scholars in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy, as well as two longer essays by Antonio Damasio and David Rudrauf and Douglas Hofstadter. The book opens with six essays that argue broadly in favor of self-representationalist views, which are followed by five that argue broadly against them. Contributors next consider connections to such philosophical issues as the nature of propositional attitudes, knowledge, attention, and indexical reference. Finally, Damasio and Rudrauf link consciousness as lived with consciousness as described in neurobiological terms; and Hofstadter compares consciousness to the "strange loop" of mathematical self-reference brought to light by Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Contributors:Andrew Brook, Peter Carruthers, Antonio Damasio, John J. Drummond, Jason Ford, Rocco J. Gennaro, George Graham, Christopher S. Hill, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Terry Horgan, Tomis Kapitan, Uriah Kriegel, Keith Lehrer, Joseph Levine, Robert W. Lurz, David Rudrauf, David Woodruff Smith, John Tienson, Robert Van Gulick, Kathleen Wider, Kenneth Williford, Dan Zahavi.

Contents:

Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness; 1 Introduction; I In Favor of the Self-Representational Approach to Consciousness; 2 Mirror Mirror - Is That All?; 3 Internal-World Skepticism and the Self-Presentational Nature of Phenomenal Consciousness; 4 Emotion and Self-Consciousness; 5 Kant: A Unifi ed Representational Base for All Consciousness; 6 The Self-Representational Structure of Consciousness; 7 The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of Consciousness; II Against the Self-Representational Approach to Consciousness; 8 Conscious Awareness and (Self-)Representation

9 The Case(s) of (Self-)Awareness10 Between Pure Self-Referentialism and the Extrinsic HOT Theory of Consciousness; 11 Perceptual Consciousness: How It Opens Directly Onto the World, Preferring the World to the Mind; 12 Thinking about (Self-)Consciousness: Phenomenological Perspectives; III Connections: Cognition, Attention, and Knowledge; 14 Conscious Beliefs and Desires: A Same-Order Approach; 15 Consciousness, Self, and Attention; 16 Indexicality and Self-Awareness; 17 Consciousness, Representation, and Knowledge; IV Beyond Philosophy: Consciousness and Self-Reference

19 What Is It Like to Be a Strange Loop?References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-552) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-31163-1

1-282-10086-6

9786612100864

0-262-27762-X

1-4294-7758-X

OCLC:

150541685