Real Materialism

Zusatztext immensely interesting and provocative, and written in an enjoyably combative style ... a fascinating and engrossing collection of papers, of which every one is deserving of detailed discussion. Informationen zum Autor Galen Strawson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, and Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, UK. Prior to that he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). He has held visiting positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (1993), New York University (1997), and Rutgers University (2000). Strawson received his degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and the Sorbonne (1977-8). He is also Philosophy editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Klappentext Real Materialism is a collection of highly original essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics: consciousness and the mind-body problem; our knowledge of the world; the nature of the self or subject; free will and moral responsibility; the nature of thought and intentionality; causation and David Hume. Zusammenfassung Real Materialism is a collection of highly original essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics: consciousness and the mind-body problem; our knowledge of the world; the nature of the self or subject; free will and moral responsibility; the nature of thought and intentionality; causation and David Hume.

Autorentext
Galen Strawson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, and Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, UK. Prior to that he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). He has held visiting positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (1993), New York University (1997), and Rutgers University (2000). Strawson received his degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and the Sorbonne (1977-8). He is also Philosophy editor at the Times Literary Supplement.

Klappentext
Real Materialism is a collection of highly original essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics: consciousness and the mind-body problem; our knowledge of the world; the nature of the self or subject; free will and moral responsibility; the nature of thought and intentionality; causation and David Hume.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. Real Materialism; 2. Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism; 3. Can we know the nature of reality as it is in itself?; 4. Red and 'red'; 5. Self, body, and experience; 6. What is the relation between an experience, the subject of the experience, and the content of the experience?; 7. Against narrativity; 8. Episodic ethics; 9. Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity; 10. Intentionality and experience: terminological preliminaries; 11. Real intentionality: why intentionality entails consciousness; 12. On the inevitability of freedom (from the compatibilist point of view ); 13. The impossibility of moral responsibility; 14. Consciousness, free will, and the unimportance of determinism; 15. Free agents; 16. Realism and causation; 17. The contingent reality of natural necessity; 18. David Hume: objects and power; 19. Epistemology, semantics, ontology, and David Hume; Bibliography; Index

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