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Consciousness And Physicalism
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Author : Andreas Elpidorou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Consciousness And Physicalism written by Andreas Elpidorou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world, offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that consciousness is nothing over and above the physical. By synthesizing work in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science from the last twenty years and forging a dialogue with contemporary research in the empirical sciences of the mind, Andreas Elpidorou and Guy Dove advance and defend a novel formulation of physicalism. Although physicalism has been traditionally understood to be a metaphysical thesis, Elpidorou and Dove argue that there is an alternative and indeed preferable understanding of physicalism that both renders physicalism a scientifically informed explanatory project and allows us to make important progress in addressing the ontological problem of consciousness. Physicalism, Elpidorou and Dove hold, is best viewed not as a thesis (metaphysical or otherwise) but as an interdisciplinary research program that aims to compositionally explain all natural phenomena that are central to our understanding of our place in nature. Consciousness and Physicalism is replete with philosophical arguments and informed, through and through, by findings in many areas of scientific research. It advances the debate regarding the ontological status of consciousness. It will interest students and scholars in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science. And it will challenge both foes and friends of physicalism.
Consciousness As Complex Event
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Author : Craig Delancey
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-09
Consciousness As Complex Event written by Craig Delancey and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09 with Philosophy categories.
Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events. The text provides an accessible introduction to descriptive complexity (also known as Kolmogorov Complexity) and then applies this to show that the most influential arguments against physicalism about consciousness are unsound. The text also offers an accessible review of the current debates about consciousness and introduces a rigorous new conception of physicalism. It concludes with a positive program for the future study of phenomenal experience. It is readable and compact and will be of interest to philosophers and cognitive scientists, and of value to advanced students of philosophy. Key Features Provides a new approach to the study of consciousness, using information theory. Offers a valuable discussion of physicalism, of use in other disciplines. Contains an introduction to the main literature and arguments in the debate about consciousness. Includes an accessible overview of how to apply descriptive complexity to philosophical problems.
E Physicalism
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Author : Reinaldo J. Bernal Velásquez
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
E Physicalism written by Reinaldo J. Bernal Velásquez and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
This work advances a theory in the metaphysics of phenomenal consciousness, which the author labels “e-physicalism”. Firstly, he endorses a realist stance towards consciousness and physicalist metaphysics. Secondly, he criticises Strong AI and functionalist views, and claims that consciousness has an internal character. Thirdly, he discusses HOT theories, the unity of consciousness, and holds that the “explanatory gap” is not ontological but epistemological. Fourthly, he argues that consciousness is not a supervenient but an emergent property, not reducible and endowed with original causal powers, with respect to the micro-constituents of the conscious entity. Fifthly, he addresses the “zombie argument” and the “supervenience argument” within the e-physicalism framework. Finally, he elaborates on the claim that phenomenal properties are physical and discusses the “knowledge argument”.
Consciousness And The Prospects Of Physicalism
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Author : Derk Pereboom
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-22
Consciousness And The Prospects Of Physicalism written by Derk Pereboom and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Phenomenal Concepts And Phenomenal Knowledge
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Author : Associate Professor of Philosophy Torin Alter
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2007
Phenomenal Concepts And Phenomenal Knowledge written by Associate Professor of Philosophy Torin Alter and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
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Consciousness And The Limits Of Objectivity
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Author : Robert J. Howell
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Consciousness And The Limits Of Objectivity written by Robert J. Howell and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
Robert J. Howell offers a new account of the relationship between conscious experience and the physical world, based on a neo-Cartesian notion of the physical and careful consideration of three anti-materialist arguments. His theory of subjective physicalism reconciles the data of consciousness with the advantages of a monistic, physical ontology.
Consciousness And Its Place In Nature
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Author : Galen Strawson
language : en
Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
Release Date : 2006
Consciousness And Its Place In Nature written by Galen Strawson and has been published by Imprint Academic (Ips) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
For the last five years philosopher Strawson has provoked a mixture of shock and skepticism with his carefully argued case that physicalism entails panpsychism. In this book, he provides the fullest and most careful statement of his position to date.
What Is Consciousness
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Author : Amy Kind
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-30
What Is Consciousness written by Amy Kind and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2.0, a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism, a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2.0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring. Key Features Outlines the different things people mean by "consciousness" and provides an account of what consciousness is Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments, with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness Written in a lively and accessibly style Includes a comprehensive glossary
Consciousness In The Physical World
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Author : Torin Andrew Alter
language : en
Publisher: Philosophy of Mind
Release Date : 2015
Consciousness In The Physical World written by Torin Andrew Alter and has been published by Philosophy of Mind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Philosophy categories.
According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism, matter has intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and serve as categorical bases for the dispositional properties described in physics. Consciousness in the Physical World collects various works on Russellian monism, including historical selections, recent classics, and new pieces. Most chapters are sympathetic with the view, but some are skeptical. Together, they constitute the first book-length treatment of the view itself, its relationship to other theories, its motivations, and its problems.
Physicalism And Its Discontents
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Author : Carl Gillett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-11-26
Physicalism And Its Discontents written by Carl Gillett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-26 with Philosophy categories.
A collection of essays by physicalists and their critics on the important doctrine of physicalism, first published in 2001.