Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness

by Daniel Stoljar

Book Overview

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world.

The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience distinct from the physical, nor to deny the reality of phenomenal experience, nor even to rethink our understanding of consciousness and the language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195383281
• ISBN13: 9780195383287
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"