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  title info:
    title: Thinking about consciousness
  name:
    name part: Papineau, David
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages)
  abstract: Thinking About Consciousness is a discussion of recent physicalist ideas about consciousness, written in an accessible style by David Papineau.
  table of contents: Introduction. Mystery, what mystery? --The intuition of distinctness -- A need for therapy -- Ontological monism, conceptual dualism -- Understanding the intuition of distinctness -- The details of materialism -- The plan of the book.
  table of contents: The case for materialism. The causal argument -- The ontology of causes -- Epiphenomenalism and pre-established harmony -- Accepting overdetermination -- Functionalism and epiphobia -- A possible cure for epiphobia -- Intuition and supervenience -- An argument from a priori causal roles -- What is physics? -- The completeness of physics.
  table of contents: Conceptual dualism. Jackson's knowledge argument -- Denying any difference -- Imaginative re-creation -- Introspective classification -- The ability hypothesis -- Indexicality and phenomenal concepts -- The contingency of learning from experience -- Imagination and introspection -- Further issues.
  table of contents: The impossibility of zombies. Epistemology versus metaphysics -- The appearance of contingency -- Explaining the appearance of contingency -- Referring via contingent properties -- A different explanation -- Thinking impossible things -- conceivability and possibility -- The intuition of distinctness.
  table of contents: Phenomenal concepts. Psychological, phenomenal, and everyday concepts -- Phenomenal properties provide their own modes of presentation -- World-directed perceptual re-creation and classification -- Perceptual concepts -- How do perceptual concepts refer? -- The phenomenal co-option of perceptual concepts -- A quotational model -- Indexicality and the quotational model -- The causal basis of phenomenal reference -- Phenomenal concepts and privacy -- First-person incorrigibility -- Third-person uses of phenomenal concepts.
  table of contents: The explanatory gap. Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, and intuitions of gaps -- Reduction, roles, and explanation -- Does materialism require the physical truths to imply all the truths? -- An epistemological gap.
  table of contents: The intuition of distinctness. Is an explanation already to hand? -- Does conceptual dualism explain the intuition of distinctness? -- Nagel's footnote -- The antipathetic fallacy -- Do phenomenal concepts resemble their objects?
  table of contents: Prospects for the scientific study of phenomenal consciousness. The limitations of consciousness research -- Phenomenal and psychological research -- Subjects' first-person reports -- Consciousness-as-such -- Methodological impotence -- Further alternatives -- Vague phenomenal concepts -- Vagueness defended -- Theories of consciousness-as-such -- Actualist HOT theories -- Attention -- The dispositional HOT theory -- Methodological meltdown -- Representational theories of consciousness -- Vagueness and consciousness-as-such.
  table of contents: Appendix. The history of the completeness of physics. Descartes and Leibniz -- Newtonian physics -- The conservation of energy -- Conservative animism -- The death of emergentism.
  note: David Papineau.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Conscience
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: philosophy
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Mind & Body
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Bewustzijn
  classification: B808.9 .P36 2002eb
  classification: 126
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