Perplexities of consciousness / Eric Schwitzgebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwitzgebel, Eric.

Series:

Life and mind.

Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.

Contents:

Recoloring the dreamworld

Do things look flat?

Galton's other folly

Human echolocation

Titchener's introspective training manual

Do you have constant tactile experience of your feet in your shoes? and some pessimistic thoughts about theories of consciousness

The unreliability of naive introspection

When your eyes are closed, what do you see?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-29508-3

1-283-02014-9

9786613020147

0-262-29533-4

OCLC:

710992202