Consciousness and Experience

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-262-12197-2
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Bradford Books

This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to deal with the many new issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years—an extraordinarily fertile period for the philosophical investigation of consciousness. Lycan not only uses the numerous arguments against materialism, and functionalist theories of mind in particular, to gain a more detailed positive view of the structure of the mind, he also targets the set of really hard problems at the center of the theory of consciousness: subjectivity, qualia, and the felt aspect of experience. The key to his own enlarged and fairly argued position, which he calls the "hegemony of representation," is that there is no more to mind or consciousness than can be accounted for in terms of intentionality, functional organization, and in particular, second-order representation of one's own mental states. A Bradford Book

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lycan, William G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Lycan, William G.
William G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.