Research Catalog

Title

Actual consciousness / Ted Honderich.

Author

Honderich, Ted.

Publication

Corby : Oxford University Press 2014.

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Description

xi, 402 pages; 24 cm

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.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Consciousness > Philosophy
• Philosophy of the mind
• Cognitive science
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy and cognitive science
• Consciousness
• Cognition
• Perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-392) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Need for an adequate initial clarification -- Five leading ideas about consciousness -- Something's being acutal -- Dualisms, functionalisms, consciousness-criteria -- Other consciousness theories, criteria again -- Qualia naturalism, representational nationalism -- What is it to be objectively physical? -- Perceptual consciousness : what is and what isn't actual -- Perceptual consciousness : being actual is being subjectively physical -- Cognitive and affective consciousness : theories, and what is and what isn't actual -- Cognitive and affective consciousness : being actual is being differently subjectively physical -- Conclusions past and present.

ISBN

• 9780198714385
• 0198714386

OCLC

• 869726225
• SCSB-11557829

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library