- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Imprint Academic (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 090784510X
- ISBN-13: 978-0907845102
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16 x 3.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,651,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Susan Greenfield, Times Higher Educational Supplement
The best concerted voice to date from the philosophers' camp
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The philosopher Thomas Metzinger here presents an outstanding collection of the best current work by philosophers on the problem of consciousness. The contributions to this book are original article. They represent an excellent cross-section of current philosophical work on consciousness and thereby allow students and readers from other disciplines to acquaint themselves with the very latest debate, so they can then pursue their own research interests more effectively.
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This book, probably together with "the nature of consciousness" is the best collection of papers on consciousness from a philosophical point of view. The introduction itself is worth the buy. Countless great contributions appear, dealing with every espect of the current debate on consciousness. Although dating from 1995, it is still an amazing introducion to consciousness and philosophy. I will not describe all papers, and indeed they are not all absolutely great, and of course it would be impossible to agree to all of them. But some papers, like Panpineaus on the anthipathetic fallacy, Metzingers on the philosophy of temporal binding, or Levines or Chalmers on qualia, are true jewels. The last section has some really interesting more scientifically inclined theorists presenting their models of consciousness. But just the variation and superstar authors makes tha whole attempt valuable and complete.
I cannot do anything else but to repeat myself and say that this is the best introduction tho the philosophical part of the problem of consciousness.
If I would object to anything, it would be of course of the fact that there are not many papers on the science of consciousness. I mean, there are some scientific debates that make grat philosophy. Consider blindsight, split brain cases, neglect, masking, among many other things. It is quite easy to philosophize about these issues, and that would have complemented the book nicely. Metzinger does sometning similar by discussing temporal binding, and empirical conjecture, from a philosophical prespective. Also, some aspects could have received better treatment, by including opposite views.
I cannot do anything else but to repeat myself and say that this is the best introduction tho the philosophical part of the problem of consciousness.
If I would object to anything, it would be of course of the fact that there are not many papers on the science of consciousness. I mean, there are some scientific debates that make grat philosophy. Consider blindsight, split brain cases, neglect, masking, among many other things. It is quite easy to philosophize about these issues, and that would have complemented the book nicely. Metzinger does sometning similar by discussing temporal binding, and empirical conjecture, from a philosophical prespective. Also, some aspects could have received better treatment, by including opposite views.
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