The Nature of Consciousness PDF
by Mark (University College Cork) Rowlands
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In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order.
The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed.
Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious.
His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780511029424
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2005
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- ISBN:9780511029424