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The Nature of Consciousness
by: Mark Rowlands (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Mark Rowlands Page See search results for this author Mark Rowlands (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (11 Oct. 2001)
Language: English
Print length: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0521808588
ISBN-13: 9780521808583
Book Description
In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
