Contributor
Block, Ned Joel, 1942-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997.
Descriptionxxix, 843 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:"A Bradford book."
Note:Introduction: The many faces of consciousness: a field guide / Güven Güzeldere -- I. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 1. The stream of consciousness / William James -- 2. The Cartesian theater and "filling in" the stream of consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett -- 3. The robust phenomenology of the stream of consciousness / Owen Flanagan -- II. CONSCIOUSNESS, SCIENCE, AND METHODOLOGY: 4. Prospects for a unified theory of consciousness or, what dreams are made of / Owen Flanagan -- 5. Consciousness, folk psychology, and cognitive science / Alvin I. Goldman -- 6. Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness? / Patricia Smith Churchland -- 7. Time and the observer: the where and when of consciousness in the brain / Daniel C. Dennett, Marcel Kinsbourne -- 8. Begging the question against phenomenal consciousness / Ned Block -- 9. Time for more alternatives / Robert Van Gulick -- III. THE PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 10. Contrastive phenomenology: a thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness / Bernard J. Baars -- 11. Visual perception and visual awareness after brain damage: a tutorial overview / Martha J. Farah -- 12. Understanding consciousness: clues from unilateral neglect and related disorders / Edoardo Bisiach -- 13. Modularity and consciousness / Tim Shallice -- 14. Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness / Francis Crick, Christof Koch -- IV. CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTENT: 15. Consciousness and content / Colin McGinn -- 16. Externalism and experience / Martin Davies -- 17. A representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character / Michael Tye -- 18. Sensation and the content of experience: a distinction / Christopher Peacocke.
Note:V. FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 19. Conscious inessentialism and the epiphenomenalist suspicion / Owen Flanagan -- 20. On a confusion about a function of consciousness / Ned Block -- 21. The path not taken / Daniel C. Dennett -- 22. Availability: the cognitive basis of experience? / David J. Chalmers -- 23. Fallacies or analyses? / Jennifer Church -- 24. Two kinds of consciousness / Tyler Burge -- 25. Understanding the phenomenal mind: are we all just armadillos? Part II: the absent qualia argument / Robert Van Gulick -- VI. METAPHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 26. The identity thesis / Saul A. Kripke -- 27. Reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness / John R. Searle -- 28. A question about consciousness / Georges Rey -- 29. Finding the mind in the natural world / Frank Jackson -- 30. Breaking the hold: silicon brains, conscious robots, and other minds / John R. Searle -- 31. The first-person perspective / Sydney Shoemaker -- VII. SUBJECTIVITY AND EXPLANATORY GAP: 32. What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- 33. Can we solve the mind-body problem? / Colin MacGinn -- 34. On leaving out what it's like / Joseph Levine -- VIII. THE KNOWLEDGE ARGUMENT: 35. Understanding thephenomenal mind: are we all just armadillos? Part I: Phenomenal knowledge and explanatory gaps / Robert Van Gulick -- 36. What Mary didn't know / Frank Jackson -- 37. Knowing qualia: a reply to Jackson / Paul M. Churchland -- 38. What experience teaches / David Lewis -- 39. Phenomenal states / Brian Loar -- IX. QUALIA: 40. Quining qualita / Daniel C. Dennett -- 41. The inverted spectrum / Sydney Shoemaker -- 42. The intrinsic quality of experience / Gilbert Harman -- 43. Inverted early / Ned Block -- 44. Curse of the qualia / Stephen L. White -- X. HIGHER-ORDER MONITORING CONCEPTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 45. What is consciousness? / David Armstrong -- 46. A theory of consciousness / David M. Rosenthal -- 47. Consciousness as internal monitoring / William G. Lycan -- 48. Conscious experience / Fred Dretske -- 49. Is consciousness the perception of what passes in one's own mind? / Güven Güzeldere.
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