Phenomenal consciousness : understanding the relation between experience and neural processes in the brain /

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How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neura...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Platchias, Dimitris, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Intentionality (Philosophy)
Consciousness.
Philosophy of mind.
Brain.
Experience.
Representation (Philosophy)
Consciousness
Brain
Représentation (Philosophie)
Intentionnalité (Philosophie)
Conscience.
Expérience.
Cerveau.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
brains.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Experience
Philosophy of mind
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The nature of the mind ; 2. Phenomenal consciousness: The hard problem; 3. Phenomenal consciousness and the ""sufficiency"" claim ; 4. Experience and first-order representationalism ; 5. Experience and the explanatory gap.
  • 6. Experience and higher-order representationalism Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

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