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The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution
by Colin McGinn
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (1993-04-15)
ISBN: 0631188037
EAN: 9780631188032
Dewey Decimal #: 149
Binding/Media: Paperback - 224 pages
SKU: 20-CZ1X-FLOO
Condition: New
Comments: Brand new softcover. Gift quality.
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Product Description
Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting thesis, but case could be improved.
Rating  (4)
Date: 1999-04-11
4 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
McGinn's thesis is very interesting, and he does a relatively good job of arguing for it, but he could have made a much stronger case for why "supernaturalistic" accounts of consciousness must be ruled out. Although I am a naturalist, I don't think it is fair to just assume that alternate accounts would destroy the whole project of trying to understand the world.
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