Consciousness and Object: A Mind-Object Identity Physicalist Theory

by Riccardo Manzotti

What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked "What is a man?" and replied that a man is "a certain sort of material object". This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027213623
• ISBN13: 9789027213624
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 254 Pages