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Consciousness and mind / David M. Rosenthal

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Clarendon Press, 2005Description: viii, 378 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0198236964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780198236962 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0198236972 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780198236979 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Consciousness and mind.; Online version:: Consciousness and mind.DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 126 R815C  22
LOC classification:
  • B808.9 .R675 2005
Contents:
Explaining consciousness -- Two concepts of consciousness -- Thinking that one thinks -- Intentionality -- Introspection and self-interpretation -- Qualitative consciousness and homomorphism theory -- The independence of consciousness and sensory quality -- Sensory quality and the relocation story -- Sensory qualities, consciousness, and perception -- Consciousness, expression, and interpretation -- First-person operationalism and mental taxonomy -- Moore's paradox and consciousness -- Why are verbally expressed thoughts conscious? -- Consciousness and its expression -- Content, interpretation, and consciousness -- Self-consciousness -- Unity of consciousness and the self
Summary: This volume gathers together the work of David Rosenthal on the philosophical study of consciousness from the past 20 years and represents his theory of consciousness as higher-order thought. An introduction draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 126 R815C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062493

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-370) and index

Explaining consciousness -- Two concepts of consciousness -- Thinking that one thinks -- Intentionality -- Introspection and self-interpretation -- Qualitative consciousness and homomorphism theory -- The independence of consciousness and sensory quality -- Sensory quality and the relocation story -- Sensory qualities, consciousness, and perception -- Consciousness, expression, and interpretation -- First-person operationalism and mental taxonomy -- Moore's paradox and consciousness -- Why are verbally expressed thoughts conscious? -- Consciousness and its expression -- Content, interpretation, and consciousness -- Self-consciousness -- Unity of consciousness and the self

This volume gathers together the work of David Rosenthal on the philosophical study of consciousness from the past 20 years and represents his theory of consciousness as higher-order thought. An introduction draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications

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