- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2.0, a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism, a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2.0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring.
Key Features
- Outlines the different things people mean by "consciousness" and provides an account of what consciousness is
- Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism
- Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments, with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework
- Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness
- Written in a lively and accessibly style
- Includes a comprehensive glossary
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Opening Statements
- First Round of Replies
- Second Round of Replies
- Suggested Further Readings
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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