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The reflexive nature of consciousness /
Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.e., that they have a built-in, "implicit" awareness of their own oc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 72. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Conscious states, reflexivity, and phenomenal character
- Some remarks on methodology
- Some semantics of "consciousness"
- Preamble
- Creature consciousness : transitive and intransitive
- State consciousness
- Unconscious mental states
- Self-consciousness
- Phenomenal consciousness
- A formula for state consciousness
- Nagel's what-it-is-like formula
- Putative counterexamples
- Non-conscious phenomenality?
- Summary
- Consciousness and self-awareness
- Preamble
- A gloss on intentionality
- The transitivity principle
- Two positive arguments for the transitivity principle
- Higher-orderism
- Preamble
- The higher-order theory of consciousness
- A "one-state" alternative
- Preamble
- The Brentanian model
- Objections and replies
- Representationalism
- Preamble
- The representational theory of phenomenal character
- The nature of phenomenal character
- Preamble
- Phenomenal character as implicit self-awareness
- Some brief remarks on privacy
- Conclusion.