Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness

by Josh Weisberg

Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness argues that despite the worries of explanatory pessimists, consciousness can be fully explained in "easy" scientific terms. The widespread intuition that consciousness poses a hard problem is plausibly based on how consciousness appears to us in first-person access. The book offers a debunking argument to undercut the justificatory link between the first-person appearances and our hard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032533439
• ISBN13: 9781032533438
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"