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Zusatztext This audacious venture should certainly be praised . . . good philosophy presses readers to think for themselves! and Actual Consciousness gives us much food for thought. Informationen zum Autor Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, past chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and visiting professor at Yale and the CUNY Graduate Centre, came to England from Canada as a graduate student. He has lived in London for most of his life, and lectured in much of Europe and the East. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (second edition; OUP, 2005), How Free Are You? (second edition; OUP, 2002), and The Philosophers (OUP, 1999). Klappentext What is it for you to be conscious? There is no consensus in philosophy or science: it has remained a mystery. Ted Honderich develops a brand new theory of consciousness, according to which perceptual consciousness is external to the perceiver. It exists in a subjective physical world dependent on both you and the objective physical world. Zusammenfassung What is it for you to be conscious? There is no consensus in philosophy or science: it has remained a mystery. Ted Honderich develops a brand new theory of consciousness, according to which perceptual consciousness is external to the perceiver. It exists in a subjective physical world dependent on both you and the objective physical world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Need for an Adequate Initial Clarification 2: Five Leading Ideas About Consciousness 3: Something's Being Actual 4: Dualisms, Functionalisms, Consciousness-Criteria 5: Other Consciousness Theories, Criteria Again 6: What It Is To Be Objectively Physical 7: Perceptual Consciousness--What Is and Isn't Actual 8: Perceptual Consciousness--Being Actual Is Being Subjectively Physical 9: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Theories, and What Is And Isn't Actual 10: Cognitive and Affective Consciousness--Being Actual is Being Differently Subjectively Physical 11: Conclusions Past and Present Bibliography Index ...
