Sisyphus's Boulder

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Consciousness and the limits of the knowable

Eric Dietrich Valerie Gray Hardcastle(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 17. Februar 2005

XII, 136 Seiten

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Sisyphus's Boulder
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Intuitions at an impasse
1.1. Consequences of some obvious but under-appreciated facts
1.1.1. What is consciousness?
1.1.2. But what is consciousness really? An embarrassment of explanations
1.2. The real debate: The naturalists and the mysterians
1.2.1. Defining naturalism and mysterianism
1.2.2. The tension between naturalism and mysterianism
1.2.3. Silence at the impasse
I. Troubles with naturalism
2. Against naturalism
2.1. Supervenience and its epistemology
2.2. Zombie and Cartesian intuitions: Roadblocks to an explanatory theory of consciousness
2.2.1. The nature of the zombie and Cartesian intuitions
2.2.2. Persistent illusions: The best case for naturalism
2.3. The logically hermetic nature of consciousness
2.3.1. The hermetic property
2.3.2. Handling an objection
2.4. An argument against naturalism
3. The dismal prospects for naturalism
3.1. The role of concepts and inference in supervenience explanations
3.2. The conceptual impasse
3.3. The improved argument
II. Aspects of a science of consciousness
4. How to avoid being a mysterian
4.1. The lure of the mysterian view
4.2. Problems with mysterian arguments
4.3. More problems with mysterian arguments
4.4. Handling a tacit mysterian assumption: The relation between description and experience
5. Science in the face of mystery
5.1. The science of consciousness in broad outline
5.2. Overconfidence, underdetermination, and the correlates of consciousness
5.2.1. Flohr's hypothesis
5.2.2. Is there a way to find the NCC?
5.2.3. Blindsight and other philosophical examples
5.3. The pragmatics of consciousness research
5.4. The naturalists' promissory notes
III. An application
6. How consciousness creates philosophy
6.1. The enduringness of philosophy: The proper view
6.2. The Nagelian conjecture
6.3. Deeper aspects of Nagel's conjecture
6.4. The nature and future of philosophy
Appendix: Problems with zombies
1. Chalmers's zombies
2. The Kripkean view of worlds
3. Consciousness and conceptual truth
4. The impossibility of zombie twins
5. Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Appendix
References
Index
The series Advances in Consciousness Research

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