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Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

Af: Philip Goff Engelsk Hardback

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality

Af: Philip Goff Engelsk Hardback
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A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally physical in nature. The first half of this book argues that physicalist views cannot account for the evident reality of conscious experience, and hence that physicalism cannot be true. Unusually for an opponent of physicalism, Goff argues that there are big problems with the most well-known arguments against physicalism--Chalmers'' zombie conceivability argument and Jackson''s knowledge argument -- and proposes significant modifications. The second half of the book explores and defends a recently rediscovered theory of fundamental reality--or perhaps rather a grouping of such theories--known as ''Russellian monism.'' Russellian monists draw inspiration from a couple of theses defended by Bertrand Russell in The Analysis of Matter in 1927. Russell argued that physics, for all its virtues, gives us a radically incomplete picture of the world. It tells us only about the extrinsic, mathematical features of material entities, and leaves us in the dark about their intrinsic nature, about how they are in and of themselves. Following Russell, Russellian monists suppose that it is this ''hidden'' intrinsic nature of matter that explains human and animal consciousness. Some Russellian monists adopt panpsychism, the view that the intrinsic natures of basic material entities involve consciousness; others hold that basic material entities are proto-conscious rather than conscious. Throughout the second half of the book various forms of Russellian monism are surveyed, and the key challenges facing it are discussed. The penultimate chapter defends a cosmopsychist form of Russellian monism, according to which all facts are grounded in facts about the conscious universe.
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A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally physical in nature. The first half of this book argues that physicalist views cannot account for the evident reality of conscious experience, and hence that physicalism cannot be true. Unusually for an opponent of physicalism, Goff argues that there are big problems with the most well-known arguments against physicalism--Chalmers'' zombie conceivability argument and Jackson''s knowledge argument -- and proposes significant modifications. The second half of the book explores and defends a recently rediscovered theory of fundamental reality--or perhaps rather a grouping of such theories--known as ''Russellian monism.'' Russellian monists draw inspiration from a couple of theses defended by Bertrand Russell in The Analysis of Matter in 1927. Russell argued that physics, for all its virtues, gives us a radically incomplete picture of the world. It tells us only about the extrinsic, mathematical features of material entities, and leaves us in the dark about their intrinsic nature, about how they are in and of themselves. Following Russell, Russellian monists suppose that it is this ''hidden'' intrinsic nature of matter that explains human and animal consciousness. Some Russellian monists adopt panpsychism, the view that the intrinsic natures of basic material entities involve consciousness; others hold that basic material entities are proto-conscious rather than conscious. Throughout the second half of the book various forms of Russellian monism are surveyed, and the key challenges facing it are discussed. The penultimate chapter defends a cosmopsychist form of Russellian monism, according to which all facts are grounded in facts about the conscious universe.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190677015
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0190677015
Udg. Dato: 14 sep 2017
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 167mm
Højde: 245mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 14 sep 2017
Forfatter(e): Philip Goff
Forfatter(e) Philip Goff


Kategori Bevidsthedsfilosofi


ISBN-13 9780190677015


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 167mm


Højde 245mm


Udg. Dato 14 sep 2017


Oplagsdato 14 sep 2017


Forlag Oxford University Press Inc

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