Review of Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness [Book Review]

Metapsychology Online Reviews 8 (49) (2004)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In recent philosophy of mind, epiphenomenalism—that strain of dualism according to which the mind is caused by the body but does not cause the body in turn—has undergone something of a renaissance. Contemporary epiphenomenalists bear only partial resemblance to their more extravagantly metaphysical ancestors, however. Traditional epiphenomenalists thought that (at least) two sorts of mental properties were epiphenomenal—intentional properties such as the meaning or representational content of the propositional attitudes (beliefs, desires and so on); and conscious properties such as awareness and the qualitative nature of experience. Contemporary epiphenomenalists, on the other hand, are largely sanguine about the prospects for intentionality to be brought within the purview of a physicalist worldview; what forces their dualism is one particular feature of consciousness—what irks them are qualia, the..

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 105,859

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
89 (#252,665)

6 months
4 (#1,002,479)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Brad Weslake
New York University, Shanghai

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references