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  • Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness

    Through the Looking Glass

    by Michael Tye ...
    When Alice stepped through the looking-glass, she encountered a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. Reflecting on the inception of consciousness, it is natural to suppose that there are just two alternatives. Either consciousness appeared in living ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs

    Are Animals Conscious?

    by Michael Tye ...
    A consideration of some of the most common questions about animal minds. Do birds have feelings? Can fish feel pain? Could a honeybee be anxious? For centuries, the question of whether or not animals are conscious like humans has prompted debates among philosophers and scientists. While most people gladly accept that complex mammals - such as dogs - share emotions and experiences with us, the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Consciousness Revisited

    Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts

    by Michael Tye ...
    Series series Representation and Mind series
    Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called "the phenomenal-concept ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Reality and Humean Supervenience

    Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

    by Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, D M. Armstrong, Jonathan Bennett, John Bigelow, Daniel Bonevac, Phillip Bricker, Peter Forrest, Terence Horgan, Harold W. Noonan, Paul Teller, Michael Tye ...
    Series series Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
    If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

    by Philip Goff ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally physical in nature. The first half of this book argues that physicalist views cannot account for the ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • The Waning of Materialism

    Edited by Robert C. Koons, George Bealer ...
    Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Philosophy for Graduate Students

    Metaphysics and Epistemology

    by Alex Broadbent ...
    When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed. There are a number of topics that any contemporary philosopher working in any part of the analytic tradition (and in many parts of other traditions too) needs to grasp, and to grasp as a coherent whole rather than a rag ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

    by Richard Fumerton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
    The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Consciousness

    by Christopher S. Hill ...
    This book presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness. The initial chapter distinguishes six main forms of consciousness and sketches an account of each one. Later chapters focus on phenomenal consciousness, consciousness of, and introspective consciousness. In discussing phenomenal consciousness, Hill develops the representational theory of mind in new directions, arguing that all awareness ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Epistemology

    Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses

    by Laurence Bonjour ...
    Series series Elements of Philosophy
    In Epistemology, Laurence Bonjour introduces the serious philosophy student to the history and concepts of epistemology, while simultaneously challenging them to take an active part in its ongoing debates. The text reflects BonJour's conviction that the place to start any discussion of the theories of knowledge is with the classical problems, beginning with and centered around Descartes. Only ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience

    by David Papineau ...
    What are the materials of conscious perceptual experience? What is going on when we are consciously aware of a visual scene, or hear sounds, or otherwise enjoy sensory experience? In this book David Papineau exposes the flaws in contemporary answers to this central philosophical question and defends a new alternative. Contemporary theories of perceptual experience all hold that conscious ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Beyond Concepts

    Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information

    by Ruth Garrett Millikan ...
    Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural ... Read more

    $27.59 USD