Knowledge Possibility And Consciousness

Author : John Perry
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262661355
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness written by John Perry and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. This book defends a view called antecedent physicalism.

Author : JeeLoo Liu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000750
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Self written by JeeLoo Liu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. Leading philosophers offer contrasting perspectives on the relation between consciousness and self-awareness, and the notion of personhood. Essential reading for philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and psychologists.

Author : Sam Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141990
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge Argument written by Sam Coleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge and groundbreaking set of new essays by top philosophers on key topics related to the ever-influential knowledge argument.

Author : Associate Professor of Philosophy Torin Alter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195171659
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge written by Associate Professor of Philosophy Torin Alter and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Robert J. Howell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191662658
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity written by Robert J. Howell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity Robert J. Howell argues that the options in the debates about consciousness and the mind-body problem are more limited than many philosophers have appreciated. Unless one takes a hard-line stance, which either denies the data provided by consciousness or makes a leap of faith about future discoveries, one must admit that no objective picture of our world can be complete. Howell argues, however, that this is consistent with physicalism, contrary to received wisdom. After developing a novel, neo-Cartesian notion of the physical, followed by a careful consideration of the three major anti-materialist arguments—Black's 'Presentation Problem', Jackson's Knowledge Argument, and Chalmers' Conceivability Argument—Howell proposes a 'subjective physicalism' which gives the data of consciousness their due, while retaining the advantages of a monistic, physical ontology.

Author : Torin Alter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192576933
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Consciousness written by Torin Alter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson. According to physicalism, consciousness is a physical phenomenon. The knowledge argument stars Mary, who learns all objective, physical information through black-and-white media and yet acquires new information when she first sees colors for herself: information about what it is like to see in color. Based partly on that case, Jackson concludes that not all information is physical. Alter argues that the knowledge argument succeeds in refuting all standard versions of physicalism: versions on which consciousness is grounded by what objective science reveals. Alter also argues that given further, plausible assumptions, the knowledge argument leads to Russellian monism, according to which there are intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and underlie properties described by physics, such as mass and charge. Alter explains how the knowledge argument establishes those two conclusions and defend it against numerous objections.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019926760X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and Its Objects written by Colin McGinn and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin McGinn presents work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays which extend and deepen his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable.

Author : Tarthang Tulku
Publisher : Dharma Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, Space and Knowledge written by Tarthang Tulku and published by Dharma Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed for its lucid presentation, TSK blends reasoning and experiential inquiry to offer a unique path of transformation. A deeply exhilarating book, TSK gives readers a language to ask the questions that conventional training teaches us to ignore. Thirty-five exercises reunite philosophy with direct experience.

Author : Nicolai Hartmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110246686
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Possibility and Actuality written by Nicolai Hartmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolai Hartmann's Possibility and Actuality is the second volume of a four-part investigation of ontology. It deals with such questions as: How do we know that something is really possible? Is the possible only the actual? Is the actual only the possible? What is the difference between ideal and real possibility? This groundbreaking work of modal analysis describes the logical relations between possibility, actuality, and necessity, and it provides insight into the relations between modes of knowledge and modes of being. Hartmann reviews the history of philosophical concepts of possibility and necessity, from ancient Megarian philosophy to Aristotle, to Medieval Scholasticism, to Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. He explains the importance of modal analysis as a basic investigative tool, and he proposes an approach to understanding the nature of human existence that unifies the fields of ontology, modal logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. This brilliant and fascinating work is relevant to many topics of debate in contemporary philosophy, including the ontology of possible worlds, the metaphysics of modality, the logic of counterfactual conditionals, and modal epistemology. It illuminates the nature of real, ideal, logical, and epistemic possibility.

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199877327
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism written by Derk Pereboom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed. The first exploits the open possibility that introspective representations fail to represent mental properties as they are in themselves; specifically, that introspection represents phenomenal properties as having certain characteristic qualitative natures, which these properties might actually lack. The second response draws on the proposal that currently unknown fundamental intrinsic properties provide categorical bases for known physical properties and would also yield an account of consciousness. While there are non-physicalist versions of this position, some are amenable to physicalism. The book's third theme is a defense of a nonreductive account of physicalism. The type of nonreductivism endorsed departs from others in that it rejects all token identity claims for psychological and microphysical entities. The deepest relation between the mental and the microphysical is constitution, where this relation is not to be explicated by the notion of identity.