A place for consciousness : probing the deep structure of the natural world / Gregg Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Gregg, author.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series.

Philosophy of mind series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Probing the deep structure of the natural world

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure and information processing leaves us guessing about the central questions concerning the character of its experience. A Place for Consciousness begins with reflections on the existence of this gap. Is it just a psychological shortcoming in our merely human unders

Contents:

A place for consciousness

The argument against physicalism

Physicalist responses to the argument against physicalism

The boundary problem for experiencing subjects

On the possibility of panexperientialism

On the probability of panexperientialism

Paradoxes for liberal naturalism

Against Hume

The theory of causal significance

A tutorial on causal significance

Is connectivity entailed by the physical?

The carrier theory of causation

The consciousness hypothesis

Applications.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029058-7

1-280-70436-5

0-19-534710-2

OCLC:

437109231