{"product_id":"consciousness-and-mind-1","title":"Consciousness and Mind","description":"Consciousness and Mind presents David Rosenthal's \ninfluential work on the nature of consciousness. Central to that work is \nRosenthal's higher-order-thought theory of consciousness, according to which a \nsensation, thought, or other mental state is conscious if one has a \nhigher-order thought (HOT) that one is in that state. The first four \nessays develop various aspects of that theory.\n\nThe next three essays present Rosenthal's homomorphism theory of \nmental qualities and qualitative consciousness, and show how that \ntheory fits with and helps sustain the HOT theory. A crucial feature \nof homomorphism theory is that it individuates and taxonomizes mental \nqualities independently of the way we're conscious of them, and indeed \nindependently of our being conscious of them at all. So the theory \naccommodates the qualitative character not only of conscious sensations \nand perceptions, but also of those which fall outside our stream of \nconsciousness. Rosenthal argues that, because this account of mental \nqualities makes no appeal to consciousness, it enables us to dispel such \ntraditional quandaries as the alleged conceivability of undetectable \nquality inversion, and to disarm various apparent obstacles to \nexplaining qualitative consciousness and understanding its nature.\n\nSix further essays build on the HOT theory to explain various important \nfeatures of consciousness, among them the complex connections that \nhold in humans between consciousness and speech, the self-interpretative \naspect of consciousness, and the compelling sense we have that \nconsciousness is unified.\n\nTwo of the essays, one an extended treatment of homomorphism theory, \nappear here for the first time. There is also a substantive introduction, \nwhich draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228024754520,"sku":"9780198236962","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198236962_bbb78e90-4d22-4ddf-b408-0c9a7f607a34.jpg?v=1764852336","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/consciousness-and-mind-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}