The relevance of William James's notion of consciousness to contemporary philosophy of mind /
My aim here is to show that William James's notion of hics.
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | My aim here is to show that William James's notion of hics. consciousness is relevant to the concerns of contemporary theorists in the philosophy of mind. Four themes in contemporary philosophy of mind are (1) The Possibility of an Objective Phenomenology, (11) Reductive Versus Nonreductive Physicalism, (111). The Ascription of Consciousness and (IV) Mental Causation. These four themes constitute a critical prism which refracts the major concerns of contemporary theorists in the philosophy of mind. The work of philosopher and psychologist William James provides a notion of consciousness in two distinguishable accounts, the cognitive and the phenomenological. Together, the cognitive and phenomenological accounts present a qualitative notion of consciousness, where consciousness and object are distinguished functionally, within an irreducible ontology of experience. I shall place James's notion of consciousness in the critical prism in order to show that it offers a relevant, tenable approach to the concerns of contemporary theorists in the philosophy of mind. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major subject: Philosophy". |
| Physical Description: | vi, 78 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). |