Consciousness

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ISBN: 9781855219526 | 1855219522
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Brings together some of the most important research publications on the philosophical problem of consciousness. It includes a detailed introduction that surveys the leading issues in the current debate.

Acknowledgements

vii

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Series Preface

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Introduction

PART I PHENOMENAL FEEL, FUNCTIONALISM AND REPRESENTATION

(92)

Sydney Shoemaker (1982)

1 `The Inverted Spectrum', Journal of Philosophy, 79, pp. 357-81.

(26)

Robert Kirk (1982)

2 `Goodbye to Transposed Qualia', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 82, pp. 33-44.

(12)

Michael Tye (1986)

3 `The Subjective Qualities of Experience', Mind, 95, pp. 1-17.

(18)

Sydney Shoemaker (1994)

4 `Self-Knowledge and "Inner Sense": Lecture III: The Phenomenal Character of Experience', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIV, pp. 291-312.

(22)

Michael Tye (1997)

5 `A Representational Theory of Pains and Their Phenomenal Character', in Ned Block, Owen Flanagan and Guven Guzeldere (eds), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 329-40.

(14)

PART II QUALIA AND PHYSICALISM: THE KNOWLEDGE ARGUMENT

(88)

Frank Jackson (1986)

6 `What Mary Didn't Know', Journal of Philosophy, 83, pp. 291-5.

(6)

Richard Warner (1986)

7 `A Challenge to Physicalism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 64, pp. 249-65.

101

(18)

Janet Levin (1986)

8 `Could Love Be Like a Heatwave?: Physicalism and the Subjective Character of Experience', Philosophical Studies, 49, pp. 245-61.

119

(18)

Terence Horgan (1984)

9 `Jackson on Physical Information and Qualia', Philosophical Quarterly, 34, pp. 147-52.

137

(6)

Paul M. Churchland (1985)

10 `Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of Brain States', Journal of Philosophy, 82, pp. 8-28.

143

(22)

Earl Conee (1994)

11 `Phenomenal Knowledge', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72, pp. 136-50.

165

(18)

PART III QUALIA AND PHYSICALISM: ABSENT QUALIA AND ZOMBIES

183

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Sydney Shoemaker (1981)

12 `Absent Qualia are Impossible -- A Reply to Block', Philosophical Review, XC, pp. 581-99.

183

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Ned Block (1980)

13 `Are Absent Qualia Impossible?', Philosophical Review, LXXXIX, pp. 257-74.

203

(18)

Robert Kirk (1979)

14 `From Physical Explicability to Full-Blooded Materialism', Philosophical Quarterly, 29, pp. 229-37.

221

(10)

William G. Lycan (1981)

15 `Form, Function, and Feel', Journal of Philosophy, 78, pp. 24-50.

231

(30)

PART IV WHAT MUST BE ADDED TO GET CONSCIOUSNESS OF?

261

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Fred Dretske (1993)

16 `Conscious Experience', Mind, 102, pp. 263-83.

261

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Robert Kirk (1992)

17 `Consciousness and Concepts I', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66, pp. 23-40.

283

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Peter Carruthers (1992)

18 `Consciousness and Concepts II', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66, pp. 41-59.

301

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PART V MAKING PHYSICAL SENSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

323

(82)

David Papineau (1993)

19 `Physicalism, Consciousness and the Antipathetic Fallacy', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 71, pp. 169-83.

323

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Kathleen Akins (1996)

20 `Lost the Plot? Reconstructing Dennett's Multiple Drafts Theory of Consciousness', Mind and Language, 11, pp. 1-43.

339

(44)

Daniel C. Dennett (1993)

21 `The Message is: There is no Medium', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIII, pp. 919-31.

383

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David Lewis (1995)

22 `Should a Materialist Believe in Qualia?', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73, pp. 140-44.

397

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PART VI PESSIMISM

405

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Colin McGinn (1989)

23 `Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?', Mind, XCVIII, pp. 349-66.

405

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Name Index

423

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