Consciousness and Intentionality
1st Edition
Published on 13. February 2001
X, 265 pages
978-90-272-9987-1 (ISBN)
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Is there an internal relationship between consciousness and intentionality? Can mental content be described in such a way so as to avoid dualism? What is the influence of social context upon consciousness, conceptions of self and mental content?
This book considers questions such as these and argues for a conception of consciousness, mental content and intentionality that is anti-Cartesian in its major tenets. Focusing upon the rule governed nature of concepts and the grounding of the rules for concept use in the practical world, intentional consciousness emerges as a phenomena that depends upon social context. Given that dependence, the authors consider and set aside attempts to reduce human consciousness and intentionality to phenomena explicable at biological or neuroscientific levels. (Series A)
This book considers questions such as these and argues for a conception of consciousness, mental content and intentionality that is anti-Cartesian in its major tenets. Focusing upon the rule governed nature of concepts and the grounding of the rules for concept use in the practical world, intentional consciousness emerges as a phenomena that depends upon social context. Given that dependence, the authors consider and set aside attempts to reduce human consciousness and intentionality to phenomena explicable at biological or neuroscientific levels. (Series A)
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Grant R. Gillett | John McMillan
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Content
- CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTENTIONALITY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Consciousness and intentionality Foundations
- Chapter 2. Language and Consciousness
- Chapter 3. The objects of consciousness
- Chapter 4. Consciousness and action
- Chapter 5. Consciousness and society
- Chapter 6. Consciousness and the brain
- Chapter 7. Animal Consciousness
- Chapter 8. Anomalies of consciousness
- Consciousness and intentionality Some conclusions
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH
