Consciousness Revisited: Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts

by Michael Tye

Book Overview

Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.

We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical materialists have formulated what is sometimes called "the phenomenal-concept strategy," which holds that we possess a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516632
• ISBN13: 9780262516631
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher