Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism

by Derk Pereboom

Book Overview

In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed. The first exploits the open possibility that introspective representations fail to represent mental properties as they are in themselves; specifically, that introspection represents phenomenal properties as having certain characteristic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190649623
• ISBN13: 9780190649623
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"