This books shows the centrality of a proper ontology of properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of our experience-such as how a strawberry tastes-arise from brain states?
This books shows the centrality of a proper ontology of properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of our experience-such as how a strawberry tastes-arise from brain states?
Mihretu P. Guta teaches philosophy at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Biola University and at Azusa Pacific University, California. He co-edited with Sophie Gibb the Special Issue for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, entitled 'Insights into the first-person perspective and the self: an interdisciplinary approach', 11-12 (2015), and is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Metaphysics of Substance and Personhood: A Non-Theory-Laden Approach.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Mihretu P. Guta Part I: Ontology, Properties and Consciousness 1. The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness John Heil 2. Physical Properties Alexander D. Carruth 3. A Powerful New Anomalous Monism Henry Taylor 4. What We Conceive of When We Conceive of Zombies Donnchadh O'Connaill 5. The Metaphysics of Artifical Intelligence Eric T. Olson 6. Substance Dualism: The Best Account of the Unity of Consciousness J. P. Moreland Part II: Ontology, Emergence and Consciousness 7. Explaining the Ontological Emergence of Consciousness Philip Woodward 8. The Non-Causal Account of the Spontaneous Emergence of Phenomenal Consciousness Mihretu P. Guta Part III: Mental Causation and Consciousness 9. Mental Causation and Counterfactuals: A New Argument for the Type-Identity Thesis José Luis Bermúdez and Arnon Cahen 10. Mental Causation Really is Mental Causation Richard Swinburne Part IV: Extended Mind, Constitution and Consciousness 11. Extended Mind and the Authority of Consciousness Adam Green 12. New Mechanisms and the Enactivist Concept of Constitution Shaun Gallagher Part V: Neuroscience and Consciousness 13. Hard Problems of Unified Experience from the Perspective of Neuroscience Eric LaRock 14. Neural Correlates of Consciousness and the Nature of the Mind Matthew Owen References Index
Introduction Mihretu P. Guta Part I: Ontology, Properties and Consciousness 1. The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness John Heil 2. Physical Properties Alexander D. Carruth 3. A Powerful New Anomalous Monism Henry Taylor 4. What We Conceive of When We Conceive of Zombies Donnchadh O'Connaill 5. The Metaphysics of Artifical Intelligence Eric T. Olson 6. Substance Dualism: The Best Account of the Unity of Consciousness J. P. Moreland Part II: Ontology, Emergence and Consciousness 7. Explaining the Ontological Emergence of Consciousness Philip Woodward 8. The Non-Causal Account of the Spontaneous Emergence of Phenomenal Consciousness Mihretu P. Guta Part III: Mental Causation and Consciousness 9. Mental Causation and Counterfactuals: A New Argument for the Type-Identity Thesis José Luis Bermúdez and Arnon Cahen 10. Mental Causation Really is Mental Causation Richard Swinburne Part IV: Extended Mind, Constitution and Consciousness 11. Extended Mind and the Authority of Consciousness Adam Green 12. New Mechanisms and the Enactivist Concept of Constitution Shaun Gallagher Part V: Neuroscience and Consciousness 13. Hard Problems of Unified Experience from the Perspective of Neuroscience Eric LaRock 14. Neural Correlates of Consciousness and the Nature of the Mind Matthew Owen References Index
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