David Rosenthal is one of the leading contributors to the philosophical study of consciousness. This volume gathers together his work on the subject from the past two decades, and represents the definitive presentation of his influential theory of consciousness as higher-order thought. Two of the essays appear here for the first time; there is also a substantial new introduction, drawing out the connections between the essays and highlighting their implications.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- I. Explaining Consciousness
- 1: Two Concepts of Consciousness
- 2: Thinking that One Thinks
- 3: Intentionality
- 4: Introspection and Self-Interpretation
- II. Qualitative Consciousness and Homomorphism Theory
- 5: The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality
- 6: Sensory Quality and the Relocation Story
- 7: Sensory Qualities, Consciousness, and Perception
- III. Consciousness, Expression, and Interpretation
- 8: First-Person Operationalism and Mental Taxonomy
- 9: Moore's Paradox and Consciousness
- 10: Why Are Verbally Expressed Thoughts Conscious?
- 11: Consciousness and its Expression
- 12: Content, Intepretation, and Consciousness
- IV. Self-Consciousness
- 13: Unity of Consciousness and the Self
- Select Bilbiography
- Index
