Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution (Revised)

Colin McGinn

ISBN 10: 0631188037 / ISBN 13: 9780631188032

Published by Wiley-Blackwell March 1993, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution (Revised)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell March 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631188037
• ISBN 13: 9780631188032
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Used
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Synopsis

Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.

About the Author

Colin McGinn was formerly Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind (1981), The Subjective View (1982), Wittgenstein on Meaning (Blackwell, 1984) and Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989).