Consciousness, function, and representation / Ned Block.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Block, Ned Joel, 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, ©2007.
©2007.
Series:Collected papers ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Functionalism
  • 2. What is functionalism?
  • 3. What psychological states are not, with J. Fodor
  • 4. Troubles with functionalism
  • 5. What intuitions about Homunculi Do Not Sho
  • 6. Consciousness
  • 7. Review of Daniel Dennett, consciousness explained
  • 8. What is Dennett's theory a theory of?
  • 9. On a confusion about a function of consciousness
  • 10. How many concepts of consciousness?
  • 11. Biology versus computation in the study of consciousness
  • 12. Ridiculing social constructivism about phenomenal consciousness
  • 13. Concepts of consciousness
  • 14. How not to find the neural correlate of consciousness
  • 15. Paradox and cross-purposes in recent work on consciousness
  • 16. Spatial perception via tactile sensation
  • 17. Two neural correlates of consciousness
  • 18. Review of Alva Noe¿, action in perception
  • 19. Are absent qualia impossible?
  • 20. The harder problem of consciousness
  • 21. Max Black's objection to mind-body identity
  • 22. Qualia
  • 23. Inverted earth
  • 24. Mental paint
  • 25. Sexism, racism, ageism, and the nature of consciousness
  • 26. Is experiencing just representing?
  • 27. Bodily sensations as an obstacle for representationism.