Actual Consciousness - Ted Honderich
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What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, general externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways. (1) It begins from gathered data and proceeds to an adequate initial clarification of consciousness in the primary ordinary sense. This consciousness is summed up as something's being actual. (2) Like basic science, Actualism proceeds from this metaphorical or figurative beginning to what is wholly literal and explicit--constructed answers to the questions of what is actual and what it is for it to be actual. (3) In so doing, the theory respects the differences of consciousness within perception, ...
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2016Uitgever: Oxford University Press432 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0198776918ISBN-13: 9780198776918Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Honderich, Ted] [Pagina's: 402] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Actual Consciousness]
