Actual consciousness / Ted Honderich.

What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich set...

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Main Author: Honderich, Ted (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In Actual Consciousness, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 402 pages .)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191782794
0191782793
9780191023859
019102385X
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.