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The Nature of Consciousness

Mark Rowlands author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Aug '07

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This book develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness.

Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, with significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. His book will interest a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.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.

'Enter The Nature of Consciousness, a book filled with scholarly argument, well-developed - but also well-defined - complex jargon, excellent critique of all the previous important works of the field (thought experiments included) and written by a philosophy lecturer. This book is required reading not only for those wanting to get to grips with what is going on in consciousness studies, but for those who are dissatisfied with the current accounts …' Metapsychology

ISBN: 9780521039475

Dimensions: 225mm x 153mm x 15mm

Weight: 391g

256 pages