Perplexities of consciousness

Perplexities of consciousness / Eric Schwitzgebel.

In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwitzgebel, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:Life and mind.
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Philosophy of mind.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Consciousness
Philosophy of mind
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Table of Contents:
  • Recoloring the dreamworld
  • Do things look flat?
  • Galton's other folly
  • Human echolocation
  • Titchener's introspective training manual
  • Do you have constant tactile experience of your feet in your shoes? and some pessimistic thoughts about theories of consciousness
  • The unreliability of naive introspection
  • When your eyes are closed, what do you see?

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