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This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and
phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed
ways. The objective is to demonstrate that phenomenology, as the
first-personal study of the contents and structures of our
mentality, can provide us with insights into the understanding of
the mind and can complement strictly analytical or empirically
informed approaches to the study of the mind. Insofar as
phenomenology, as the study or science of phenomena, allows the
mind to appear, this collection shows how the mind can reappear
through a constructive dialogue between different
ways-phenomenological, analytical, and empirical-of understanding
mentality.
This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and
phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed
ways. The objective is to demonstrate that phenomenology, as the
first-personal study of the contents and structures of our
mentality, can provide us with insights into the understanding of
the mind and can complement strictly analytical or empirically
informed approaches to the study of the mind. Insofar as
phenomenology, as the study or science of phenomena, allows the
mind to appear, this collection shows how the mind can reappear
through a constructive dialogue between different
ways-phenomenological, analytical, and empirical-of understanding
mentality.
Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program
explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world,
offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that
consciousness is nothing over and above the physical. By
synthesizing work in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and
philosophy of science from the last twenty years and forging a
dialogue with contemporary research in the empirical sciences of
the mind, Andreas Elpidorou and Guy Dove advance and defend a novel
formulation of physicalism. Although physicalism has been
traditionally understood to be a metaphysical thesis, Elpidorou and
Dove argue that there is an alternative and indeed preferable
understanding of physicalism that both renders physicalism a
scientifically informed explanatory project and allows us to make
important progress in addressing the ontological problem of
consciousness. Physicalism, Elpidorou and Dove hold, is best viewed
not as a thesis (metaphysical or otherwise) but as an
interdisciplinary research program that aims to compositionally
explain all natural phenomena that are central to our understanding
of our place in nature. Consciousness and Physicalism is replete
with philosophical arguments and informed, through and through, by
findings in many areas of scientific research. It advances the
debate regarding the ontological status of consciousness. It will
interest students and scholars in philosophy of mind, metaphysics,
philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science. And it
will challenge both foes and friends of physicalism.
Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program
explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world,
offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that
consciousness is nothing over and above the physical. By
synthesizing work in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and
philosophy of science from the last twenty years and forging a
dialogue with contemporary research in the empirical sciences of
the mind, Andreas Elpidorou and Guy Dove advance and defend a novel
formulation of physicalism. Although physicalism has been
traditionally understood to be a metaphysical thesis, Elpidorou and
Dove argue that there is an alternative and indeed preferable
understanding of physicalism that both renders physicalism a
scientifically informed explanatory project and allows us to make
important progress in addressing the ontological problem of
consciousness. Physicalism, Elpidorou and Dove hold, is best viewed
not as a thesis (metaphysical or otherwise) but as an
interdisciplinary research program that aims to compositionally
explain all natural phenomena that are central to our understanding
of our place in nature. Consciousness and Physicalism is replete
with philosophical arguments and informed, through and through, by
findings in many areas of scientific research. It advances the
debate regarding the ontological status of consciousness. It will
interest students and scholars in philosophy of mind, metaphysics,
philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science. And it
will challenge both foes and friends of physicalism.
Many of our endeavors - be it personal or communal, technological
or artistic - aim at eradicating all traces of dissatisfaction from
our daily lives. They seek to cure us of our discontent in order to
deliver us a fuller and flourishing existence. But what if
ubiquitous pleasure and instant fulfilment make our lives worse,
not better? What if discontent isn't an obstacle to the good life
but one of its essential ingredients? In Propelled, Andreas
Elpidorou makes a lively case for the value of discontent and
illustrates how boredom, frustration, and anticipation are good for
us. Weaving together stories from sources as wide-ranging as
classical literature, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy,
art, and video games, Elpidorou shows that these psychological
states aren't unpleasant accidents of our lives. Rather, they
illuminate our desires and expectations, inform us when we find
ourselves stuck in unpleasant and unfulfilling situations, and
motivate us to furnish our lives with meaning, interest, and value.
Boredom, frustration, and anticipation aren't obstacles to our
goals-they are our guides, propelling us into lives that are truly
our own.
Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life.
It permeates and affects our personal, social, practical, and moral
existence. It shapes our world by demarcating the interesting and
the meaningful from that which is not. And it sets us in motion
insofar as its presence can give rise to a plethora of behaviors.
Indeed, in its search for meaning, interest, and fulfillment,
boredom straddles the line between the good and the bad, the
beneficial and the harmful. In this volume, world-renowned
researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially
important aspect of boredom: it's relationship to morality. Does
boredom cause individuals to commit immoral acts? Is the experience
of boredom something that needs to be avoided at all costs? Does
boredom make us worse people? Is it a problem or a solution? Can it
be both? These and other questions are taken up and answered in the
volume.
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