1st Edition

What is Consciousness? A Debate

By Amy Kind, Daniel Stoljar Copyright 2023
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard"... Read more

Foreword
Frank Jackson

Opening Statements

1. The Mind-Body Problem: Dualism Rebooted
Amy Kind

2. Non-standard Physicalism: The epistemic view
Daniel Stoljar

First Round of Replies

3. Ignorance Is No Defense: Reply to Daniel Stoljar
Amy Kind

4. Taking Non-Standard Options Seriously: Reply to Amy Kind
Daniel Stoljar

Second Round of Replies

5. The Consciousness Slugathon: Reply to Daniel Stoljar's Reply
Amy Kind

6. Taking Non-Standard Options Seriously: Reply to Amy Kind's Reply
Daniel Stoljar

Biography

Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. She has authored numerous articles in philosophy of mind, as well as two books, Persons and Personal Identity (Polity, 2015) and Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (Routledge, 2020); she has also edited and co-edited four volumes, the most recent of which is Epistemic Uses of Imagination (Routledge, 2021).

Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of mind and related topics, as well as the books, Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (OUP, 2006), Physicalism (Routledge, 2010), and Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism (OUP, 2017).