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Author:   Quentin Smith (, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University) ,  Aleksandar Jokic (, Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education at Santa Barbara City College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9780199241293

ISBN 10:   0199241295
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   23 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Intentionality and Phenomenal Content1: Michael Tye: Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism? 2: Tim Crane: The Intentional Structure of Consciousness 3: Joseph Levine: Experience and Representation 4: Brian Loar: Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia 5: Brian P. McLaughlin: Color, Consciousness, and Color Consciousness Knowing Mental States6: Shaul Nichols and Stephen Stich: How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness 7: Kristin Andrews: Knowing Mental States: The Asymmetry of Psychological Prediction and Explanation 8: David Chalmers: The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief 9: Ernest Sosa: Privileged Access Consciousness and the Brain10: James Fetzer: Consciousness and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds 11: Robert Van Gulick: Maps, Gaps, and Traps 12: David Papineau: Theories of Consciousness 13: William Lycan: Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument 14: Anthony Brueckner and E. Beroukhim: McGinn on Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness15: Quentin Smith: Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics 16: Michael Lockwood: Consciousness and the Quantum World: Putting Qualia on the Map 17: Don Page: Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness 18: Barry Loewer: Consciousness and Quantum Theory: Strange Bedfellows

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The fourth part of this collection is philosophically the most novel and exciting, assessing the possible resources of quantum theory for thinking about consciousness ... I recommend this collection, especially for Quentin Smith's provocative essay. * Religious Studies *

The fourth part of this collection is philosophically the most novel and exciting, assessing the possible resources of quantum theory for thinking about consciousness ... I recommend this collection, especially for Quentin Smith's provocative essay. Religious Studies

`Brian McLaughlin contributes a fine paper on colour-consciousness.' Religious Studies `David Chalmers has a superb defence of the existence of phenomenal beliefs that are not conceptually reducible to physicalist and functional analysis.' Religious Studies

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