Consciousness and explanation

Martin Davies

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Consciousness and explanation

Martin Davies

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This chapter begins with the subjective conception of consciousness that gives rise to the explanatory gap and the intractability of the 'why?' question. It then discusses the approach to the study of consciousness, an approach that rejects the subjective conception in favour of a broadly behaviourist one. Finally, it discusses the knowledge argument - an argument for the anti-physicalist claim that phenomenal properties of conscious mental states are not physical properties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Frontiers of Consciousness
Subtitle of host publication	Chichele Lectures
Publisher	Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191696596
ISBN (Print)	9780199233151
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233151.003.0001
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Conscious mental states
Consciousness
Knowledge argument
Subjective conception

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