Ten Problems of Consciousness

A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind

By: Michael Tye

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Paperback | 22 January 1997

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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 such theory, according to Tye, lies in how well it handles ten critical problems of consciousness. Tye argues that all experiences and all feelings represent things, and that their phenomenal aspects are to be understood in terms of what they represent. He develops this representational approach to consciousness in detail with great ingenuity and originality. In the book's first part Tye lays out the domain, the ten problems and an associated paradox, along with all the theories currently available and the difficulties they face. In part two, he develops his intentionalist approach to consciousness. Special summaries are provided in boxes and the ten problems are illustrated with cartoons. A Bradford Book. "Representation and Mind series"

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"A fascinating account of the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.Clearly written, philosophically sophisticated, and scientificallyinformed..Tye's book develops a persuasive and, in many respects,original argument for the view that the qualitative side of ourmental life is representational in nature." Fred Dretske, Stanford University

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Non-Fiction Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory States of Consciousness

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Ten Problems
Phenomenal Consciousness Introduced
The Problem of Ownership
The Problem of Perspectival Subjectivity
The Problem of Mechanism
The Problem of Phenomenal Causation
The Problem of Super Blindsight
The Problem of Duplicates
The Problem of the Inverted Spectrum
The Problem of Transparency
The Problem of Felt Location and Phenomenal Vocabulary
The Problem of the Alien Limb
Why the Problems Run So Deep
Must the Physical Be Objective?
Perspectival Subjectivity and the Explanatory Gap
Physicalism and Phenomenal Causation
On the Denial of Perspectival Subjectivity
The Paradox of Phenomenal Consciousness
The Available Strategies
The Way Ahead II
Can Anyone Else Feel My Pains?
The Repudiation of Phenomenal Objects
Publicizing the Phenomenal: Split Brains
Phenomenal Objects as Events
A Closer Look at Events
The Intentionality of Feelings and Experiences
Intentional States and Intentional Content
How Perceptual Sensations Represent
Afterimages
The Problem of Ownership Revisited
Pains
Other Bodily Sensations
The Format of Sensory Representations
Background Feelings
Emotions
Moods
What What It's Like Is Really Like
Why Be an Intentionalist?
Phenomenal Content: The PANIC Theory
Colors and Other ''Secondary Qualities"
Can Duplicate Brains Differ Phenomenally?
Some Putative Counterexamples
The Tale of Mary and Mechanism: A Theory of Perspectival Subjectivity
The Real Nature of the Phenomenal
Perspectival Subjectivity and the Paradox
Mary's Room
Some of Mary's Philosophical Relatives
The Explanatory Gap
Can You Really Imagine What You Think You Can?
The Status of the PANIC Theory
Imaginability and Perception: A Parallel
Troublesome Possibilities?
Zombie Replicas and Other Duplicates
Inverted Experiences
Inverted Earth
Appendix: Blindsight
Three Sorts of Visual Agnosia
An Empirical Proposal
Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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