Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind

by Michael Tye

Book Overview

Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a new and enlightening theory about the phenomenal "what it feels like" aspect of consciousness. The test of any...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262700646
• ISBN13: 9780262700641
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher