The nature of consciousness / Mark Rowlands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowlands, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 The problem of phenomenal consciousness; 2 Consciousness and supervenience; 3 The explanatory gap; 4 Consciousness and higher-order experience; 5 Consciousness and higher-order thoughts; 6 The structure of consciousness; 7 What it is like; 8 Against objectualism II: mistakes about the way things seem; 9 Consciousness and representation; 10 Consciousness and the natural order; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-241) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12481-6

0-521-03947-9

0-511-32847-8

0-511-48753-3

0-511-04471-2

0-511-15467-4

0-511-17468-3

1-280-43049-4

OCLC:

437073030