Consciousness and the world / Brian O'Shaughnessy.
"Brian O'Shaughnessy investigates what consciousness is and how it engages, through perception, with the world." "It is his contention that consciousness consists in a closely knit complex of occurrent mental phenomena and powers with thinking and self-knowledge at the centre - a...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
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| Summary: | "Brian O'Shaughnessy investigates what consciousness is and how it engages, through perception, with the world." "It is his contention that consciousness consists in a closely knit complex of occurrent mental phenomena and powers with thinking and self-knowledge at the centre - and nothing else. He proceeds to give a philosophical elucidation of its nature, analysing it into its constituent psychological parts. He argues that consciousness has a determinate character as an internal but world-oriented phenomenon, and that there exist logically necessary and sufficient conditions for its presence. Though consciousness is an internal state, perception is its very foundation, being the source of the material with which the mind develops, and essential to the processes whereby it does so."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 705 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191519482 0191519480 9780191598135 0191598135 1281989061 9781281989062 9786611989064 6611989064 |
| Language: | English. |