Consciousness and qualia / Leopold Stubenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stubenberg, Leopold.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 5.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualia.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having is problematical because none of the typical candidates for this relation - introspection, inner monitoring, higher level thoughts - is capable of explaining what it looks like to have a quale . The qualia problem is solved by introducing a bundle theory of phenome

Contents:

CONSCIOUSNESS AND QUALIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE. Introduction; CHAPTER TWO. Making our Ideas Clear: Consciousness and Qualia; CHAPTER THREE. On Method: The First-Person Perspective; CHAPTER FOUR. Higher-Order Representation and Introspection; CHAPTER FIVE. The Allure of Introspectionism; CHAPTER SIX. Oscar, the Unconscious Introspector: A Case Study; CHAPTER SEVEN. Relocating Qualia; CHAPTER EIGHT. Having Relocated Qualia; CHAPTER NINE. Denying Relocated Qualia

CHAPTER TEN. Consciousness: The Having of QualiaNotes; References; Detailed Table of Contents; Index

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-345) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-17440-5

9786613174406

90-272-8349-4

OCLC:

741492708