Thinking about consciousness / David Papineau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papineau, David, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relation between subjective consciousness and the physical brain is widely regarded as the last mystery facing science. This book argues that there is no real puzzle here. Consciousness seems mysterious, not because of any hidden essence, but only because we think about it in a special way. David Papineau exposes the resulting potential for confusion, and shows that much scientific study of consciousness is misconceived. Modern physical science strongly supports a materialist account of consciousness. But there remains considerable resistance to this, both in philosophy and in the way most

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Case for Materialism; 2 Conceptual Dualism; 3 The Impossibility of Zombies; 4 Phenomenal Concepts; 5 The Explanatory Gap; 6 The Intuition of Distinctness; 7 Prospects for the Scientific Study of Phenomenal Consciousness; Appendix: The History of The Completeness of Physics; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-262) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-927115-1

1-282-00707-6

9786612007071

0-19-152948-6

OCLC:

370772431