Consciousness
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem One problem with epiphenomenalism is this: if conscious experiences can have no effect on anything wh ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? CONSCIOUSNESS IN PSYCHOLOGY The term ‘psychology’ first appeared in the eigh- teenth century to ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem still drawing-room, given up to her meditation. [. . .] she had seen only half his nature then, as on ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? Husserl’s phenomenology built on the earlier work of Franz Brentano, whose theory of consciousne ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem the reasons why introspectionism fell out of favour and behaviourism became so successful, though les ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? human behaviour was shaped by the history of reinforcements, and he believed that with the right ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem opened things up further. But it was nearly three decades before the sudden explosion of interest in c ...
Chapter One What’s the problem? can agree on remains out of reach (Dietrich, 2007). But at least we are now allowed to talk abou ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem psychology to ponder the fact that a change of consciousness never takes place without a change in the ...
Phenomena like these are in some way associated with the notion of conscious- ness, but they are not deeply mysterious. In princ ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem Underlying consciousness, the self, and free will is a notion that seems the dark flip- side of them ...
Bayne, T., Cleeremans, A., and Wilken, P. (2009). The Oxford companion to consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hundre ...
CHAPTER What is it like to be.. .? tWo BEING A... What is it like to be a bat? This is one of the most famous questions ever ask ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? Vimal, 2009), so this is probably the clos- est we can come to a definition – that consc ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem But can we ever know what it would really be like for a bat? As Nagel pointed out, the question is no ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? measure of their needs, nor of their ideas, nor of their pains, and since human speech is ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem ride your bike is a quale (pronounced kwar-lay). The sight of the bluey pink of the sunset sky is a qu ...
Chapter Two What is it like to be.. .? has changed. But can you? And if you admit that opinions can have an effect on actual tas ...
seCtIon one: tHe PRoBLem experiments are of the impossible kind. They have not been done, cannot be done, will never be done, a ...
That day had dawned – whatever dawn looked like – and now it was the eleventh hour. The minute-hand twitched forward to point to ...
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