Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism (Philosophy of Mind) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195171659 ISBN 13: 9780195171655

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical. This volume collects thirteen new papers on this problem by leading philosophers including Torin Alter, Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, John Hawthorne, Frank Jackson, Janet Levin, Joseph Levine, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Laurence Nemirow, Knut Nordby, David Papineau, and Stephen White.

About this title

About the Author:

Torin Alter is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama.

Sven Walter is Assistant Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Review:

"As might be expected from the contributors involved, the thirteen papers making up this collection provide an excellent, cutting-edge critique of some of the key arguments in the debates about phenomenal consciousness, or 'what it is like' to have conscious experiences."--Dr. David Wall, Metapsychology Online Reviews

"The issues discussed in the volume range from the nature of phenomenal consciousness and phenomenal concepts to the theory of concepts and the mind-body problem. Alter and Walter have contributed a helpful introduction, and put together an excellent collection that anyone with an interest in the philosophy of mind will find an essential volume to own." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195171659
• ISBN 13: 9780195171655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Torin Alter, Sven Walter