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Matthew Soteriou provides an original philosophical account of sensory and cognitive aspects of consciousness. He explores distinctions of temporal character in our mental lives--especially in relation to the exercise of agency--and illuminates the more general issue of the place and role of mental action in the metaphysics of mind.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Sensory Consciousness
- 1: The Manifest Image of Sensory Consciousness
- 2: Occurrence, State, Content, and Character
- 3: The Phenomenology and Ontology of Bodily Sensation
- 4: Temporal Transparency and Perceptual Acquaintance
- 5: Structural Features of Perceptual Acquaintance
- 6: Conscious Contact with Time and the Continuity of Consciousness
- 7: Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Recollection
- 8: Introspection and Knowing What it's like
- Part II. Conscious Thinking
- 9: The Place of Mental Action in the Metaphysics of Mind
- 10: The Ontology of Conscious Thinking
- 11: 'The mind uses its own freedom': Suppositional Reasoning and Self-Critical Reflection
- 12: Mental Action, Autonomy, and the Perspective of Practical Reason
- 13: Intention-in-Action and the Epistemology of Mind
- 14: Reconsidering the Place of Mental action in the Metaphysics of Mind
- 15: Thinking and Belief
- References
- Index
About the author
Matthew Soteriou is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, and epistemology, with a particular focus on perception, mental action and the ontology of mind. He is currently Editor of the Aristotelian Society.
Summary
Matthew Soteriou provides an original philosophical account of sensory and cognitive aspects of consciousness. He explores distinctions of temporal character in our mental lives--especially in relation to the exercise of agency--and illuminates the more general issue of the place and role of mental action in the metaphysics of mind.
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The Mind's Construction makes light dawn across vast swathes of philosophy of action, epistemology, philosophy of perception and philosophy of consciousness. It is a marvellous book, with which it is absolutely impossible to remain unimpressed.
