Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness

by Joseph S. Levine and Joseph Levine

Book Overview

Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious experience.
In this wide-ranging study, Joseph Levine explores both sides of the mind-body dilemma, presenting the first book-length treatment of his highly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195132351
• ISBN13: 9780195132359
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 6.2"