Real materialism and other essays / Galen Strawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, Galen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy of mind.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 478 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics - consciousness and the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the world, the nature of the self or subject, free will and moral responsibility, the nature of thought and intentionality, and causation and David Hume.

Contents:

Introduction

Real materialism

Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism

Can we know the nature of reality as it is In itself?

Red and 'Red'

Self, body, and experience

What is the relation between an experience, the subject of the experience, and the content of the experience?

Against narrativity

Episodic ethics

Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity

Intentionality and experience: terminological preliminaries

Real intentionality 3: why intentionality entails consciousness

On the inevitability of freedom from the compatibilist point of view

The impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility

Consciousness, free will, and the unimportance of determinism

Free agents

Realism and causation

The contingent reality of natural necessity

David Hume: objects and power

Epistemology, semantics, ontology, and David Hume.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-468) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-926743-X

1-281-85293-7

9786611852931

0-19-155619-X

OCLC:

318675688