Consciousness and its objects / Colin McGinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGinn, Colin, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Mind and body.

Philosophy.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Medical Subjects:

Consciousness.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable. He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions. McGinn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-exist

Contents:

What constitutes the mind-body problem?

How not to solve the mind-body problem

Solving the philosophical mind-body problem

What is it not like to be a brain?

Consciousness and space

Consciousness, atomism, and the ancient Greeks

Consciousness and cosmology : hyperdualism ventilated

The problem of philosophy

Inverted first-person authority

The objects of intentionality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-160179-9

1-281-92527-6

9786611925277

0-19-153312-2

OCLC:

63294738