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Consciousness revisited

materialism without phenomenal concepts

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We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called "the phenomenal-concept strategy," which holds that we possess a range of special concepts for classifying the subjective aspects of our experiences. In Consciousness Revisited, the philosopher Michael Tye, until now a proponent of the phenomenal-concept strategy, argues that the strategy is mistaken. A rejection of phenomenal concepts leaves the materialist with the task of finding some other strategy for defending materialism. Tye points to four major puzzles of consciousness that arise: How is it possible for Mary, in the famous thought experiment, to make a discovery when she leaves her black-and-white room? In what does the explanatory gap consist and how can it be bridged? How can the hard problem of consciousness be solved? How are zombies possible? Tye presents solutions to these puzzles -- solutions that relieve the pressure on the materialist created by the failure of the phenomenal-concept strategy. In doing so, he discusses and makes new proposals on a wide range of issues, including the nature of perceptual content, the conditions necessary for consciousness of a given object, the proper understanding of change blindness, the nature of phenomenal character and our awareness of it, whether we have privileged access to our own experiences, and, if we do, in what such access consists.

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2011, MIT Press
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2009, MIT Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Phenomenal consciousness
Phenomenal consciousness and self-representation
The connection between phenomenal consciousness and creature consciousness
Consciousness of things
Real world puzzle cases
Why consciousness cannot be physical and why it must be
What is the thesis of physicalism?
Why consciousness cannot be physical
Why consciousness must be physical
Physicalism and the appeal to phenomenal concepts
Some terminological points
Why physicalists appeal to phenomenal concepts
Various accounts of phenomenal concepts
My own earlier view on phenomenal concepts
Are there any phenomenal concepts?
Phenomenal concepts and burgean intuitions
Consequences for a priori physicalism
The admissible contents of visual experience : the existential thesis
The singular (when filled) thesis
Kaplanianism
The multiple contents thesis
The existential thesis revisited
Still more on existential contents
Consciousness, seeing and knowing
Knowing things and knowing facts
Nonconceptual content
Why the phenomenal character of an experience is not one of its nonrepresentational properties
Phenomenal character and representational content, part I
Phenomenal character and representational content, part II
Phenomenal character and our knowledge of it
Solving the puzzles
Mary, Mary, how does your knowledge grow?
The explanatory gap
The hard problem
The possibility of zombies
Change blindness and the refrigerator light illusion
A closer look at the change blindness hypotheses
The no-seeum view
Sperling and the refrigerator light
Phenomenology and cognitive accessibility
A further change blindness experiment
Another brick in the wall
Privileged access, phenomenal character, and externalism
The threat to privileged access
A Burgean thought experiment
Social externalism for phenomenal character?
A closer look at privileged access and incorrigibility
How do I know that I am not a zombie?
Phenomenal externalism.

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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, MA
Series
Representation and mind series

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Dewey Decimal Class
126
Library of Congress
B808.9 .T943 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
229

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Open Library
OL17007896M
Internet Archive
consciousnessrev00tyem_057
ISBN 13
9780262012737
LCCN
2008030920
OCLC/WorldCat
236117268
Goodreads
6506555

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