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Thinking about consciousness / David Papineau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Papineau, David, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thinking About Consciousness is a discussion of recent physicalist ideas about consciousness, written in an accessible style by David Papineau.
- 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.
- 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
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