
What is Consciousness?
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Key Features
Outlines the different things people mean by "consciousness" and provides an account of what consciousness is
Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism
Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments, with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework
Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness
Written in a lively and accessibly style
Includes a comprehensive glossary
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Persons
Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of mind and related topics, as well as the books, Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (OUP, 2006), Physicalism (Routledge, 2010), and Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (OUP, 2017).
Content
Opening Statements
First Round of Replies
Second Round of Replies
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