Sensations : A Defense of Type Materialism

Zusammenfassung This is a book about sensory states and their apparent characteristics. It confronts a whole series of metaphysical and epistemological questions and presents an argument for type materialism: the view that sensory states are identical with the neural states with which they are correlated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Topics and themes; Part II. The Mind-Body Problem: 2. The failings of dualism and the double-aspect theory; 3. The failings of functionalism; 4. In defense of type materialism; Part III. Introspection: 5. Introspective awareness of sensations; 6. Introspection and the skeptic; Part IV. Sensory Concepts: 7. Concepts of bodily sensations: Their semantic properties; 8. Concepts of visual sensations: Their content and their deployment; Part V. Other Minds: 9. Knowledge of other minds; 10. Unity of consciousness, other minds, and phenomenal space; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher Hill, Christopher S. Hill, Hill Christopher S.
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Dancy (Herausgeber), Ernest Sosa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.01.1991
• EAN: 9780521397377
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39737-7
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind