Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness

by Joseph S. Levine and Joseph Levine

Book Overview

Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious experience.
In this wide-ranging study, Joseph Levine explores both sides of the mind-body dilemma, presenting the first book-length treatment of his highly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195173082
• ISBN13: 9780195173086
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"