| Description |
1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind Series |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part I. Mind and Science -- 1. The Parts of an Imperfect Agent -- Introduction -- 1. Approximate Rationality: What and Why -- 2. Two Competing Approximate Rationality Models -- 3. The Individuation Problem -- 4. Generalizing the Problem -- 5. Conclusion -- 2. The Average Isn't Normal: The History and Cognitive Science of an Everyday Scientific Practice -- 1. Two Approaches to the Study of Values in Science -- 2. The Average and Normal -- 3. Explaining Use of the Statistical Average -- 4. Conclusion -- 3. Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representation as Correspondence -- 3. Representation without Correspondence? -- 4. Possible Responses -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. Unconscious Perception and Unconscious Bias: Parallel Debates about Unconscious Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Consciousness and Content -- 3. Is Unconscious Perception Unconscious Content? -- 4. Is Unconscious Bias Unconscious Bias? -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Aphantasia and Conscious Thought -- 1. The Sensory Constraint on Conscious Thought -- 2. Aphantasic Thoughts Do Not Have a Sensory Reduction Base -- 3. Aphantasic Thoughts Are Phenomenally Conscious -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. The Introspective Method -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is Introspection Reliable? -- 3. Wundt and Müller on Introspective Methods -- 4. Introspective Measures of Consciousness -- Part II. Sensory Experience: Perception, Imagination, Pleasure -- 7. Right Here, Right Now: On the Eudaimonic Value of Perceptual Awareness -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Nozick's 'Experience Machine' -- 3. The Intrinsic Value of Perceptual Contact -- 4. Openness -- 5. The Eudaimonic Value of Openness -- 6. Availability, Belonging, and Accepting Contingency |
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7. On Shutting the World Out -- 8. Taking Stock -- 9. Direct Realism vs. Representationalism, Again -- 10. Conclusion -- 8. Imagination, Fiction, and Perspectival Displacement -- 1. The Puzzle of Perspectival Displacement -- 2. Language and Mind -- 3. Vendler and Peacocke -- 4. Camp -- 5. Three Observations -- 6. Our Proposal -- 7. Comparisons -- 8. Application 1: Fiction -- 9. Application 2: Desire -- 9. The Dilemma for Attitude Theories of Pleasure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. Unenriched Attraction -- 4. Enriched Attraction -- 5. Escaping the Dilemma? -- 10. Seeing through Transparency -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Standard Understanding of Transparency -- 3. Distinctions and Transparency Theses -- 4. Logical Relations across Distinctions -- 5. A Unitary Multidimensional Logical Space -- 6. Scope -- 7. Conclusion -- Part III. Book Symposium on David Papineau's the Metaphysics of Sensory Experience -- 11. Précis of The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- 12. Papineau on Sensory Experience -- 1. Consciousness and Awareness of Properties -- 2. Transparency -- 3. Colour Similarity -- 13. Truth and Content in Sensory Experience -- 1. Book Summary -- 2. Two Notions of Representation -- 3. Papineau's Disagreement with Phenomenal Intentionalism -- 4. Quasi-Items as Intentional Contents -- 5. Where Do Truth Conditions Come From? -- 6. Introspection -- 7. Conclusion -- 14. An Argument against Papineau's Qualitative View of Sensory Experience -- 1. The Spatial Character of Visual Experience -- 2. The Spatial Argument against the Qualitative View -- 3. Papineau's Reason for Rejecting the Spatial Claim? -- 4. Another Potential Reason to Reject the Spatial Claim? -- 5. Conclusion -- 15. Responses to Mendelovici, Pautz, and Byrne -- 1. Mendelovici -- 2. Pautz -- 3. Byrne |
| Summary |
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kriegel, Uriah, editor
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| ISBN |
9780198879473 |
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0198879474 |
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0191989347 |
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9780191989346 |
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