Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness

by Robert Kirk

Book Overview

Consciousness is a perennial source of mystification in the philosophy of mind: how can processes in the brain amount to conscious experiences? Robert Kirk uses the notion of "raw feeling" to bridge the intelligibility gap between our knowledge of ourselves as physical organisms and our knowledge of ourselves as subjects of experience; he argues that there is no need for recourse to dualism or private mental objects. The task is to understand how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240813
• ISBN13: 9780198240815
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"