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5 papers in the library · 169 citations · publishing 2009-2020
This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory of consciousness, answers the critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to deal with the many new issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years -- an extraordinarily fertile period for the philosophical investigation of consciousness.Lycan not only...
Mind July 1, 2011 Akkelies van Nes
William Fish's book defends a naive realist view of veridical visual experience, a disjunctivist account of hallucination, and a mixed view of illusion, combining elements of his accounts of veridical experience and hallucination. Its core thesis is that the phenomenal character of any visual experience — in so far as it has one — consists in being acquainted with mind-independent facts. Fish's...
Mind April 1, 2011 Josh Weisberg 3 citations
The idea that conscious states are about both the world and themselves is an old one, tracing its roots back to Brentano and perhaps even as far back as Aristotle. There is, according to this picture, an intrinsic reflexiveness at the heart of conscious experience. In his important and provocative book Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory, Uriah Kriegel approaches this...
Mind April 1, 2011 Jay F. Levine 1 citation
In Consciousness, Christopher Hill presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness. He provides an account of perceptual consciousness, introspective consciousness, conscious thought, and along the way addresses numerous issues that have come up in the literature concerning conscious experience. Not only does he cover pretty much all the issues a theory of consciousness ought to address, he...
Mind October 1, 2009 Andy Clark 165 citations
Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with Clark and Chalmers’s (1998) claims concerning ‘the extended mind’) ‘the extended conscious mind’. In this article, I review a variety of arguments for the extended conscious...