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The case for qualia / edited by Edmond Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Qualia.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First presenting philosophical defences, then scientific and finally specific criticisms of opposing views including discussions on the Churchlands' 'neurophilosophy', this book discusses philosophical and scientific defences of Indirect Realism and counterarguments to the attacks of qualiaphobes.
- Contents:
- Philosophical defenses
- The case for indirect realism / Harold I. Brown
- Illusions and hallucinations as evidence for sense data / E.J. Lowe
- Experience and representation / William S. Robinson
- Qualia realism : its phenomenal contents and discontents / George Graham and Terence Horgan
- The world of qualia / Matjaz Potrc
- Subjective physicalism / Robert J. Howell
- Scientific defenses
- Color qualities and the physical world / C.L. Hardin
- Heat, temperature, and phenomenal concepts / Isabelle Peschard and Michel Bitbol
- A process-oriented view of qualia / Riccardo Manzotti
- The ontological status of qualia and sensations : how they fit into the brain / John Smythies
- Attacks
- The churchlands' war on qualia / Mark Crooks
- Why Frank should not have jilted Mary / Howard Robinson
- Phenomenal knowledge without experience / Torin Alter
- A defense of qualia in the strong sense / Barry Maund
- How to believe in qualia / Amy Kind
- Transparency and the unity of experience / John O'Dea
- Phenomenal character and the transparency of experience / Martine Nida-Rumelin
- From the looks of things : the explanatory failure of representationalism / Diana Raffman
- Why transparency is unethical / Edmond Wright.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-10022-X
- 9786612100222
- 0-262-28649-1
- 1-4356-4351-8
- OCLC:
- 228112181
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612100222
- 9780262286497
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