1st Edition
Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness
By Josh Weisberg
Copyright 2023
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness argues that despite the worries of explanatory pessimists, consciousness can be fully explained in “easy” scientific terms. The widespread intuition that consciousness poses a hard problem is plausibly based on how consciousness appears to us in first-person access. The book offers a debunking argument to undercut the justificatory... Read more
1. Explanatory Optimism
2. The Hard Problem and Qualitative Inaccuracy
3. The Appearances to be Explained
4. Present and Past Debunkers
5. Automated Compression Theory
6. ACT, Expertise, and First-Person Access
7. Easy is as Easy Does: ACT at Work
Biography
Josh Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He is the author of Consciousness (2014) and editor of Qualitative Consciousness: Themes from the Philosophy of David Rosenthal (2022) and has published a range of articles in philosophy of mind and consciousness studies.
