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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810236203321

Autore

Schwitzgebel Eric

Titolo

Perplexities of consciousness / / Eric Schwitzgebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29508-3

1-283-02014-9

9786613020147

0-262-29533-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Disciplina

126

Soggetti

Consciousness

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Recoloring the dreamworld -- Do things look flat? -- Galton's other folly -- Human echolocation -- Titchener's introspective training manual -- Do you have constant tactile experience of your feet in your shoes? and some pessimistic thoughts about theories of consciousness -- The unreliability of naive introspection -- When your eyes are closed, what do you see?

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.