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Quality and content essays on consciousness, representation, and modality

Title
Quality and content [electronic resource] : essays on consciousness, representation, and modality / Joseph Levine.
Author
Levine, Joseph, 1952-
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Uniform Title
Quality and content (Online)
Alternative Title
Quality and content (Online)
Subject
  • Modality (Theory of knowledge)
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Psychology > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and indexes.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Part I. Architectural issues -- Phenomenal concepts and the materialist constraint -- Demonstrative thought -- On the phenomenology of thought -- Part II. On consciousness as representation -- Experience and representation -- Knowing what it's like -- Conscious awareness and (self-)representation -- Part III. Modal and semantic issues -- The modal status of materialism (with Kelly Trogdon) -- The Q factor: modal rationalism vs. modal autonomism -- Modality, semantics, and consciousness -- Part IV. Acquaintance-appearance -- Color and color experience: colors as ways of appearing -- Secondary qualities: where consciousness and intentionality meet -- Phenomenal experience: a Cartesian theater revival.
LCCN
2017956290
OCLC
ssj0002184387
Author
Levine, Joseph, 1952-
Title
Quality and content [electronic resource] : essays on consciousness, representation, and modality / Joseph Levine.
Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
1 online resource (220 pages)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Summary
Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind. He defends a materialist view of the mind against various challenges, and offers illuminating studies of consciousness, phenomenal concepts, mental representation, demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology.
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