Blockheads! : essays on Ned Block's philosophy of mind and consciousness / edited by Adam Pautz and Daniel Stoljar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pautz, Adam, editor.

Stoljar, Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Block, Ned Joel, 1942-.

Block, Ned Joel.

Philosophy of mind.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

vii, 634 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Ned Block has made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of mind concerning intelligence, representation and consciousness. This book is a collection of eighteen new essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by Block. In addition to addressing Block's past contributions, the essays and Block's replies are rich with new ideas and arguments. They not only indicate where Block currently stands but also move the debates forward"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Attention and direct realism / Bill Brewer

The direct realist approach to illusion: reply to Bill Brewer / Ned Block

Psychological content and egocentric indexes / Tyler Burge

Tyler Burge on perceptual adaptation / Ned Block

Attention alters appearance / Marisa Carrasco

Attention affects appearance: response to Marisa Carrasco / Ned Block

Three puzzles about spatial experience / David Chalmers

Dave Chalmers on shape and color / Ned Block

Physicalism and the a priori / Frank Jackson

Reply to Frank Jackson on a priori necessitation / Ned Block

The emperor's new phenomenology: the empirical case for conscious experiences

Without first-order representations / Hakwan Lau and Richard Brown

Empirical science meets higher order views of consciousness: reply to Hakwan Lau and Richard Brown / Ned Block

Alien subjectivity and the importance of consciousness / Geoffrey Lee

Geoff Lee's hegemony of the third person / Ned Block

Representational exhaustion / Janet Levin

Strong representationism and unconscious perception: reply to Janet Levin / Ned Block

On phenomenal access / Joseph Levine

Intuitions and the metaphysics of mind: reply to Joe Levine / Ned Block

Block and the representation theory of sensory qualities / William G. Lycan

Puzzled about sensory qualities: reply to Bill Lycan / Ned Block

Could an android be conscious? / Brian P. McLaughlin

Functional role, superficialism and commander data: reply to Brian McLaughlin / Ned Block

How do brains in vats experience a spatial world? a puzzle for internalists / Adam Pautz

Arguments pro and con on Adam Pautz's external directedness principle / Ned Block

"Naive realism" and qualia / Hilary Putnam

Concepts and percepts: reply to Hilary Putnam / Ned Block

Phenomenal character and physicalism / Sydney Shoemaker

Sydney shoemaker on transparency and the inverted spectrum / Ned Block

Attention and perceptual justification / Nicholas Silins and Susanna Siegel

Attention as a conduit: reply to Nico Silins and Susanna Siegel / Ned Block

In praise of poise / Daniel Stoljar

Poise, dispositions and access-consciousness: reply to Daniel Stoljar / Ned Block

Homunculi heads and silicon chips: the importance of history to phenomenology / Michael Tye

Fading qualia: a response to Michael Tye / Ned Block

Can representationism explain how attention affects appearances? / Sebastian Watzl

Optimal attention: reply to Sebastian Watzl / Ned Block.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262038720

0262038722

OCLC:

1029795446