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by Colin McGinn

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Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.

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We have been trying for a long time to solve the mind-body problem.

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The existence of consciousness in a material world has long seemed mysterious. This book attempts to account for the mystery in a new way. It is not a matter of the world containing an objective miracle or a metaphysical enigma. Consciousness does not undermine atheistic naturalism. Nor is it that we are in the grip of a philosophical mistake - that there is nothing in reality to worry about. Consciousness does exist, and it cannot be explained by the physical sciences. The mystery arises, rather, from our modes of concept-formation: we cannot in principle arrive at a theory that would render the nature of consciousness explicable to us, despite its inherent naturalness.

The Problem of Consciousness develops this point of view by considering subjectivity, intentionality, the limits of introspection, mental causation, and the hidden structure of consciousness. It also includes chapters on philosophical laws, mental kinds, functionalism and machine consciousness.

Overall, the book aims to confront the problem of consciousness in all its difficulty while refusing to be overawed by it.

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  • Title The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution
  • Author Colin McGinn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
  • Publication date 1993-03-02
  • ISBN 9780631188032 / 0631188037
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 5.97 x 0.75 in (22.83 x 15.16 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.2

About the author

Colin McGinn was formerly Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind (1981), The Subjective View (1982), Wittgenstein on Meaning (Blackwell, 1984) and Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989).

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