The Natural Problem of Consciousness /

The Natural Problem of Consciousness / / Pietro Snider.

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The “Natural Problem of Consciousness” is the problem of understanding why there are presently conscious beings at all. Given a non-reductive naturalist framework taking consciousness as an ontologically subjective biological phenomenon, how can we rationally explain the fact that the actual world h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Snider, Pietro,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind , 36
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Metaphysical Problem of Consciousness
  • 3. The Natural Problem of Consciousness
  • 4. Consciousness as Feeling. Defining Criteria
  • 5. Working Out Diachronic Claims
  • 6. Why Do We Feel?
  • 7. A Hypothetical Biological Function of Feeling
  • 8. Causation and the Conscious Mind
  • Appendix: Objections and Replies
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index

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