Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory

by Uriah Kriegel

Book Overview

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves (whereas unconscious ones do not, at least not in the right way). The book develops this 'self-representational' approach to consciousness along several dimensions - including phenomenological, ontological, and scientific - and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199694702
• ISBN13: 9780199694709
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"