The Phenomenal and the Representational

by Jeff Speaks

Book Overview

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs. First, we are conscious-there is something that it is like to be us. That is, we instantiate phenomenal properties. Second, we represent, in various ways, our world as being certain ways. That is, we instantiate representational properties. Jeff Speaks attempts to make progress on three questions: What are phenomenal properties? What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198732554
• ISBN13: 9780198732556
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"