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The significance of consciousness /
Charles Siewert presents a distinctive approach to consciousness that emphasizes our first-person knowledge of experience and argues that we should grant consciousness, understood in this way, a central place in our conception of mind and intentionality. Written in an engaging manner that makes its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Charles Siewert presents a distinctive approach to consciousness that emphasizes our first-person knowledge of experience and argues that we should grant consciousness, understood in this way, a central place in our conception of mind and intentionality. Written in an engaging manner that makes its recently controversial topic accessible to the thoughtful general reader, this book challenges theories that equate consciousness with a functional role or with the mere availability of sensory information to cognitive capacities. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 374 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-368) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400813409 9781400813407 0691027242 9780691027241 1282753541 9781282753549 |