The Value of Consciousness

Analysis 79 (3):503-520 (2019)
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Abstract

Recent work within such disparate research areas as the epistemology of perception, theories of well-being, animal and medical ethics, the philosophy of consciousness, and theories of understanding in philosophy of science and epistemology has featured disconnected discussions of what is arguably a single underlying question: What is the value of consciousness? The purpose of this paper is to review some of this work and place it within a unified theoretical framework that makes contributions (and contributors) from these disparate areas more visible to one another.

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Uriah Kriegel
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Well-being.Roger Crisp - 2013 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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