Consciousness and object : a mind-object identity physicalist theory / Riccardo Manzotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzotti, Riccardo, author.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; Volume 95.

Advances in Consciousness Research, 1381-589X ; Volume 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked "What is a man?" and replied that a man is "a certain sort of material object". This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path.

Contents:

Intro

Consciousness and Object

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1. A materialist theory of the mind

2. Naïve materialism

2.1 The standard view

2.2 The digestive model of the mind

2.3 The hallucinatory model of perception

2.4 Physiological minds and mechanical worlds

2.5 The object-object problem

2.6 Inner man and inner world

2.7 Am I my body?

3. Consciousness and nature

3.1 Neural local supervenience and internalism

3.2 Brain in a vat are no starters

3.3 Misperception by and large

3.4 Mental and physical are different

3.5 The issue of representation and the vehicle/content dichotomy

3.6 Appearance vs reality

4. A mind-object identity theory

4.1 Identity theories and consciousness

4.2 brainbound

4.3 objectbound

4.4 Where am I?

4.5 Mind and world

4.6 The inner world is outside

4.7 Linguistic boobytraps

4.8 There's no distance between experience and world

5. The actual object

5.1 Actual objects vs naïve objects

5.2 Existence and causation

5.3 The joint cause

5.4 Relative existence

5.5 Bodies are object-makers

5.6 Actual objects and time

5.7 A hoard of actual objects

5.8 Spatiotemporal objects

6. Consciousness, body, and world

6.1 The actual world

6.2 Brains are never isolated

6.3 Causal carvings

6.4 Temporal unfolding

6.5 Causal simultaneity

6.6 Present and past are relative

6.7 Time lag debunked

7. All experience is identity

7.1 Modes of perception

7.2 A taxonomy for hallucinations

7.3 Hallucinations and dreams

7.4 Identity and hallucination

7.5 The common-kind assumption turned upside down

7.6 Illusions

8. Neuroscientific evidence

8.1 Penfield and direct brain stimulation

8.2 Congenitally blind subjects and visual experience.

8.3 Hallucinations caused by sensory blockage

8.4 Persisting objects

8.5 Filtering the world: The case of afterimages

8.6 Supersaturated red and other impossible colors

9. Subjectivity reloaded

9.1 Is the phenomenal physical?

9.2 One kind of property to rule them all

9.3 Subjective and objective are relative

9.4 Measurement and causality

9.5 Experience and knowledge

9.6 Perceptual error

9.7 Incorrigibility

9.8 Feeling vs functioning

10. A reduction

10.1 The hard problem

10.2 Intentionality or aboutness

10.3 What it is like to be something

10.4 Points of view and perspectivalness

10.5 Semantics is identity

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11. A comparison with other views

11.1 Idealism

11.2 Enactivism

11.3 Direct realism

11.4 Russellian monism

11.5 Panpsychism

11.6 Soul-less Descartes

12. The last blow to the narcissism of man

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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