Beyond physicalism / Daniel D. Hutto.
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and ex...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2000.
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| Series: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 21. |
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| Summary: | Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience. In particular, it argues that the subjectivity of experience cannot be understood in representationalist terms. This is important, for it is because many philosophers fail to come to terms with subjectivity that they are at a loss to provide a convincing solution to the mind-body problem. In this li. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283436 9027283435 902725141X 9789027251411 |
| ISSN: | 1381-589X ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |