This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to
understand “the mind-body problem”. The crux of this
problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously
described as “what it is like” to be a certain living
creature. David Chalmers refers to the problem of
“what-it-is-like” as “the hard problem” of consciousness
and claims that this problem is so “hard” that investigators
have either just ignored the issue completely, investigated a
similar (but distinct) problem, or claimed that there is literally
nothing to investigate – that phenomenal experience is illusory.
This book contends that phenomenal experience is both very real and
very important. Two specific “biological naturalist” views are
considered in depth. One of these two views, in particular,
seems to be free from problems; adopting something along the lines
of this view might finally allow us to make sense of the mind-body
problem. An essential read for anyone who believes that no
satisfactory solution to “the mind-body problem” has yet been
discovered.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Jane Anderson
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
295 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2022 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-099686-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-099686-7 |
| Barcode: |
9783030996864 |
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