1st Edition
Conundrums of Consciousness In Search of Several Non-fundamental Theories
Introduction: Concepts and Conundrums PART I Easy Problems 1 Attention: Is Consciousness Richer and/or Finer-Grained than Attention? 2 Cognition: Is There a Joint in Nature Between Consciousness and Cognition? 3 Correlates: Is the Prefrontal Cortex Part of the Overall Sensory Neural Correlates of Consciousness? 4 Mechanisms: What Brain Mechanisms Are Responsible for Consciousness? 5 Perspectives: Do We Consciously Represent Perspectival Properties? PART II Hard Problems 6 Subjectivity: How Can Subjectivity Be Placed into the Objective World? 7 Objectivity: How Can Consciousness Reach out to the Objective World? 8 Reasons: How Do Consciousness and Reasons Relate to Each Other? 9 Persons: Is Personhood at Least Partially Constituted by Consciousness? 10 Freedom: Does Free Will Require Strong Emergence About Consciousness? Conclusion: The Hard Enough Problem, the Meta-Problem, and the Truly Hard Problem
Biography
Tony Cheng is an Associate Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), an associate research fellow at Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning (RCMBL), and an associate editor of Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal. He primarily works on attention, memory, spatial senses, Molyneux’s question, and transcendental argument.
