A01=Dimitris Platchias
advanced philosophy of mind
Author_Dimitris Platchias
Blindsight Patients
Block's Account
Block’s Account
Brain Identity Theory
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Causally Closed
cognitive neuroscience
Conceptual Repertoire
Demonstrative Concepts
Dispositional Role
ect
eff
empirical consciousness research
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Explanatory Gap
Explanatory Gap Problem
Higher Order Belief
Higher Order State
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hot
Hot Theory
mental
Mental Qualitative States
mind-body problem
neural basis of subjective experience
neural correlates
Non-conceptual Content
order
Phenomenal Consciousness
Phenomenal Properties
Priori Entailments
properties
qualitative
Red Patch
Reductive Explanation
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state
states
Substance Dualism
Transparency Thesis
Vice Versa
Visual Form Agnosia
visual perception disorders
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781844652495
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural processes in the brain. However, although we know that experience arises from a physical basis, we don't have a good explanation of why and how it so arises. The problem of how physical processes give rise to experience is called the 'hard problem' of consciousness and it is the contemporary manifestation of the mind-body problem. This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it. It gives a comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon incorporating its main metaphysical and epistemic aspects, as well as recent empirical findings, such as the phenomenon of blindsight, change blindness, visual-form agnosia and optic ataraxia, mirror recognition in other primates, split-brain cases and synaesthesia.
Dimitris Platchias is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Essex and lectures in Philosophy at Glasgow University. He is co-editor of Representationalism: An Anthology and Hallucination.
