Consciousness and its Objects
McGinn, Colin,
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Print publication date: 2004
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926760-6 doi:10.1093/019926760X.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
This book features collection of essays on consciousness. It is intended as a sequel to the author’s 1991 book, The Problem of Consciousness. Although the author has not modified his views in the last decade, he has included his position under the label ‘mysterianism’, in the canon of positions regarding the mind-body problem. Chapters 1-3 focus on the mind-body problem. Chapters 4-6 deal with the concept of matter. Chapter 7 features a dialogue on consciousness and cosmology. Chapter 8 discusses the problem of philosophy. Chapter 9 questions the first person authority theory. Chapter 10 analyses the objects of intentionality.
Keywords: consciousness, mind-body problem, mysterianism, first person authority, intentionality, cosmology Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
I.
What Constitutes the Mind-Body Problem?
2.
How Not to Solve the Mind-Body Problem
3.
Solving the Philosophical Mind-Body Problem
4.
What is it not Like to be a Brain?
5.
Consciousness and Space
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Consciousness, Atomism, and the Ancient Greeks
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Consciousness and Cosmology: Hyperdualism Ventilated
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The Problem of Philosophy
9.
Inverted First-Person Authority
10.
The Objects of Intentionality
Index
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