Consciousness and experience

by Lycan, William G.

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Title Statements

Full title :Consciousness and experience / William G. Lycan.

Summary

This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory of conciousness, answers critics of his earlier work, and expands the range of discussion to deal with the many new issues and arguments that have arisen in the intervening years, an extraordinarily fertile period for the philosophical investigation of conciousness.

Lycan not only uses the numerous arguments against materialism, and functionalist theories of mind in particular, to gain a more detailed positive view of the structure of the mind; he also targets the set of really hard problems at the center of the theory of consciousness: subjectivity, qualia, and the felt aspect of experience. The key to his own enlarged and fairly argued position, which he calls the "hegemony of representation," is that there is no more to mind or consciousness than can be accounted for in terms of intentionality, functional organization, and, in particular, second-order representation of one's own mental states

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 211 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262121972, 9780262121972
oclc:ocm33818658
LC Classification:B808.9
Dewey Decimal:126

1. Introduction: What Is "The" Problem of Consciousness? -- 2. Conscious Awareness as Internal Monitoring -- 3. The Subjectivity of the Mental -- 4. Qualia Strictly So Called -- 5. A Limited Defense of Phenomenal Information -- 6. Strange Qualia -- 7. Peacocke's Arguments.