Consciousness and Experience

摘要: This sequel to Lycan's Consciousness (1987) continues the elaboration of his general functionalist theory consciousness, answers critics earlier work, and expands range discussion deal with many new issues arguments that have arisen in intervening years -- an extraordinarily fertile period for philosophical investigation consciousness.Lycan not only uses numerous against materialism, theories mind particular, gain a more detailed positive view structure mind, he also targets set really hard problems at center consciousness: subjectivity, qualia, felt aspect experience. The key own enlarged fairly argued position, which calls "hegemony representation," is there no or consciousness than can be accounted terms intentionality, functional organization, second-order representation one's mental states.A Bradford Book