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Author : Michael Tye
Release : 2002
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 887/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Consciousness, Color, and Content by : Michael Tye
Download or read book Consciousness, Color, and Content written by Michael Tye. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further development of Tye's theory of phenomenal consciousness along with replies to common objections.
Author : Michael Tye
Release : 2000
Genre : Color (Philosophy)
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Book Synopsis Consciousness, Color, and Content by : Michael Tye
Download or read book Consciousness, Color, and Content written by Michael Tye. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos Muñoz-Suárez
Release : 2015-07-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Content and Consciousness Revisited by : Carlos Muñoz-Suárez
Download or read book Content and Consciousness Revisited written by Carlos Muñoz-Suárez. This book was released on 2015-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Content and Consciousness Revisited is devoted to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced in Dennett’s seminal book, by covering its fundamental concepts, hypotheses and approaches and taking into account the findings and progress which have taken place during more than four decades. This book includes original and critical contributions about the relations between science and philosophy, the personal/sub-personal level distinction, intelligence, learning, intentionality, rationality, propositional attitudes, among other issues of scientific and philosophical interest. Each chapter embraces an updated approach to several disciplines, like cognitive science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive psychiatry.
Author : Michael Tye
Release : 1997-01-22
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 641/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ten Problems of Consciousness by : Michael Tye
Download or read book Ten Problems of Consciousness written by Michael Tye. This book was released on 1997-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a new and enlightening theory about the phenomenal "what it feels like" aspect of consciousness. The test of any such theory, according to Tye, lies in how well it handles ten critical problems of consciousness. Tye argues that all experiences and all feelings represent things, and that their phenomenal aspects are to be understood in terms of what they represent. He develops this representational approach to consciousness in detail with great ingenuity and originality. In the book's first part Tye lays out the domain, the ten problems and an associated paradox, along with all the theories currently available and the difficulties they face. In part two, he develops his intentionalist approach to consciousness. Special summaries are provided in boxes and the ten problems are illustrated with cartoons. A Bradford Book Representation and Mind series
Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Release : 1998-03-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Color Conscious by : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Download or read book Color Conscious written by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 1998-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem. Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life. Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy. Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.
