Self representational Approaches to Consciousness

Release on 2006 | by Uriah Kriegel

So the question is what relation this form of self-representation—involved in the
exercise of a phenomenal concept—bears to the self-representation involved in
the mere having of a conscious experience. Before we address that question, we
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Author: Uriah Kriegel
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262612111
Category: Philosophy
Page: 561
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Self representational Approaches to Consciousness

Leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness and the higher-order monitoring theory. In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) and the higher-order monitoring (HOM) theory, combining elements of both RTC and HOM theory in a novel fashion that may avoid the fundamental deficiencies of each. Although self-representationalist views have been common throughout the history of both Western and Eastern philosophy, they have been largely neglected in the recent literature on consciousness. This book approaches the self-representational theory from a range of perspectives, with contributions from scholars in analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy, as well as two longer essays by Antonio Damasio and David Rudrauf and Douglas Hofstadter. The book opens with six essays that argue broadly in favor of self-representationalist views, which are followed by five that argue broadly against them. Contributors next consider connections to such philosophical issues as the nature of propositional attitudes, knowledge, attention, and indexical reference. Finally, Damasio and Rudrauf link consciousness as lived with consciousness as described in neurobiological terms; and Hofstadter compares consciousness to the "strange loop" of mathematical self-reference brought to light by Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Contributors Andrew Brook, Peter Carruthers, Antonio Damasio, John J. Drummond, Jason Ford, Rocco J. Gennaro, George Graham, Christopher S. Hill, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Terry Horgan, Tomis Kapitan, Uriah Kriegel, Keith Lehrer, Joseph Levine, Robert W. Lurz, David Rudrauf, David Woodruff Smith, John Tienson, Robert Van Gulick, Kathleen Wider, Kenneth Williford, Dan Zahavi

Language: en
Pages: 561

Self-representational Approaches to Consciousness

Authors: Uriah Kriegel, Kenneth Williford

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: MIT Press

Language: en
Pages: 648

Blockheads!

Authors: Adam Pautz, Daniel Stoljar

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-12 - Publisher: MIT Press

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity.

Language: en
Pages: 440

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Authors: Anil Gupta

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02 - Publisher:

This book aims to offer an account of conscious experience and of concepts that help us understand empirical reasoning and empirical dialectic. The account offered possesses, it is claimed, two virtues. First, it provides great theoretical freedom. It allows the theoretician freedom to radically reconceive the world. The theoretician may,

Language: en
Pages: 456

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Authors: Declan Smithies

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Philosophy of Mind

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything

Language: en
Pages: 224

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Authors: Nicholas D. Smith

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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