Matters of Mind
Sturgeon, Scott
Matters of Mind Consciousness, Reason and Nature - London Routledge 2000 - 166p - International Library of Philosophy; 200000ENGGPS1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
Setting things up .............1 Setting things aside ............5 1. Visual Experience ....7 Three types of Visual Experience .....7 Five remarkable Features ...8 Disjunctive Quietism ..........10 A space of Common- FactorViews .........21 Raw-Feel Theory .........24 Intentional theory ........29 Sense - Data Theory ............33 Constructing a Theory ............41 2. Explaining Qualia ........42 The problem .........42 Property Explanation .........43 Concepts and Qualia ........46 Dissolving the Problem of Qualia .....50 Materialism and Dualism ..............53 3. Content and Warrant ........55 A striking analogy..............55 Semantic and Epistemic Success.....56 Transparent, Private and World- Involving contact with the world .............59 Transparent, Public and world-Distinct contact with the world .............62 Opaque, public and world - Involving contact with the world ................64 4. Warrant and Reliability .....72 Naturalism and Reason ..............72 Four rypes of Probability ........72 Process reliabilism ........74 Evidential force and process reliabilism ..............79 Evidential Force and Content reliabilism .......85 5. Zombies and Ghosts ...101 The basic arguments ......01 Genuine possibility ....102 Conceivability ......107 Rejecting the arguments...111 Common -sense ghosts ..........114 6. Physicalism and Overdetermination ..........121 The Target zeitgeist .....121 Locating the overdetermination argument .122 Mereology and casual closure .....128 The overdetermination argument and physics .........132
0415238005 3886
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Matters of Mind Consciousness, Reason and Nature - London Routledge 2000 - 166p - International Library of Philosophy; 200000ENGGPS1 .
includes index and biblioraphy
Setting things up .............1 Setting things aside ............5 1. Visual Experience ....7 Three types of Visual Experience .....7 Five remarkable Features ...8 Disjunctive Quietism ..........10 A space of Common- FactorViews .........21 Raw-Feel Theory .........24 Intentional theory ........29 Sense - Data Theory ............33 Constructing a Theory ............41 2. Explaining Qualia ........42 The problem .........42 Property Explanation .........43 Concepts and Qualia ........46 Dissolving the Problem of Qualia .....50 Materialism and Dualism ..............53 3. Content and Warrant ........55 A striking analogy..............55 Semantic and Epistemic Success.....56 Transparent, Private and World- Involving contact with the world .............59 Transparent, Public and world-Distinct contact with the world .............62 Opaque, public and world - Involving contact with the world ................64 4. Warrant and Reliability .....72 Naturalism and Reason ..............72 Four rypes of Probability ........72 Process reliabilism ........74 Evidential force and process reliabilism ..............79 Evidential Force and Content reliabilism .......85 5. Zombies and Ghosts ...101 The basic arguments ......01 Genuine possibility ....102 Conceivability ......107 Rejecting the arguments...111 Common -sense ghosts ..........114 6. Physicalism and Overdetermination ..........121 The Target zeitgeist .....121 Locating the overdetermination argument .122 Mereology and casual closure .....128 The overdetermination argument and physics .........132
0415238005 3886
N36 / ST960