Consciousness

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ISBN: 9780262620963 | 0262620960
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Copyright: 3/2/1995

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William G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of "Logical Form in Natural Language" and, with Steven Bo?r, "Knowing Who. Consciousness," with these earlier works, is a Bradford Book.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Consciousness and Nature
Dualism and Behaviorism
Disadvantages of Behaviorism
The Identity Theory and Functionalism
Functionalism and Essence
"Topic-Neutrality"
Kripke's Argument against Token Identity
Dialectic and Diagnosis
A Final Criticism of Kripke and a First Encounter with the Banana Peel
Topic-Neutrality and Essence
Stalking the Tinfoil Man
Block's Examples
The New Lilliputian Argument (and Its Correct Understanding)
Other Counterexamples to Machine Functionalism
The Continuity of Levels of Nature
The Hierarchy
Homuncular Functionalism
Homunculi and Teleology
Advantages of the Teleological Approach
Homunctionalism and "Qualia"
Preliminaries
Diagnosis
The Cases
The Problem of the Inputs and the Outputs
Two Alternative Strategies
Homunctionalism against Commonsense Relationalism
Awareness and Intentionality
Awareness
Introspecting
"Subjectivity"
Nagel's Argument
What Is It Like to Be an Unsound Argument against Materialism?
The Move to Funny Facts
An Argument against "Perspectival Facts"
Events, and the Banana Peel, Again
The Rest of "Subjectivity"
Color as a Paradigm Case of a Quale
Phenomenal Individuals versus Adverbially Qualified States
Type-Type Functionlalism
Token-Token Physicalism
Adverbialism, Syntax, and Semantics
Phenomenal Individuals from a Materialist Point of View
Objections
Sellars' "Grain" Argument
Sensa
Argument G and Science
Sensa and Microphysics
Against Argument G
Possibilities for Sellarsian Color in the Scientific Image
Freedom of the Will and the Spontaneity of Consciousness
The Problem of Freedom of the Will
The Initial Plausibility of the Premises
Soft Determinism
Objections and Replies
The Spontaneity of Consciousness
Epilogue
Appendix: Machine Consciousnessl
Notes
References
Index
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