Authors | |
Abstract |
Current views of consciousness can be divided by whether the theorist accepts or rejects cognitivism about consciousness. Cognitivism as we understand it is the view that consciousness is just a form of representation or an information-processing property of a system that has representations or perhaps both.<b> </b>Anti-cognitivists deny this, appealing to thought experiments about inverted spectra, zombies and the like to argue that consciousness could change while nothing cognitive or representational changes. Nearly everyone agrees, however, that consciousness has a _representational base._ Whether consciousness _simply is_ representational or cognitive, it at least _requires _representation (and cognition). In an ecumenical spirit, we will focus on this point of agreement and sketch a theory of what this representational base might be. We hope that the result will be a framework useful for investigating consciousness empirically
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
View all 20 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
An Argument Against Causal Theories of Mental Content.Todd Buras - 2009 - American Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2):117-129.
A Heterodox Defense of the Actualist Higher-Order Thought Theory.Andrea Marchesi - 2022 - Philosophical Studies 179 (5):1715-1737.
Similar books and articles
Consciousness, Representation, and Knowledge.Keith Lehrer - 2006 - In Uriah Kriegel & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness. MIT Press. pp. 409-419.
Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness.Uriah Kriegel & Kenneth Williford (eds.) - 2006 - MIT Press.
P-Consciousness Presentation/a-Consciousness Representation.Denise Gamble - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):149-150.
Self-Representation: Searching for a Neural Signature of Self-Consciousness.Albert Newen & Kai Vogeley - 2003 - Consciousness and Cognition 12 (4):529-543.
The Representational Theory of Consciousness.David Bourget - 2010 - Dissertation, Australian National University
Is Self-Representation Necessary for Consciousness?William Seager - 2006 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 12.
Kant: A Unified Representational Base for All Consciousness.Andrew Brook - 2006 - In Uriah Kriegel & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness. MIT Press. pp. 89-109.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2009-01-28
Total views
111 ( #105,537 of 2,507,011 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #417,155 of 2,507,011 )
2009-01-28
Total views
111 ( #105,537 of 2,507,011 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #417,155 of 2,507,011 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads