Sytsma, Justin (2014) Attributions of Consciousness. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5 (6). pp. 635-648. ISSN 19395078
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Abstract
Many philosophers and brain scientists hold that explaining consciousness is one of the major outstanding problems facing modern science today. One type of consciousness in particular—phenomenal consciousness—is thought to be especially problematic. The reasons given for believing that this phenomenon exists in the first place, however, often hinge on the claim that its existence is simply obvious in ordinary perceptual experience. Such claims motivate the study of people's intuitions about consciousness. In recent years a number of researchers in experimental philosophy of mind have begun to shed light on this area, investigating how people understand and attribute those mental states that have been thought to be phenomenally conscious. In this article, we discuss the philosophical concept of phenomenal consciousness and detail the work that has been done on the question of whether lay people have this concept.
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Justin Sytsma | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2015 15:11 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 May 2015 15:11 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11467 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1320 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1002/wcs.1320 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 16 September 2014 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 635-648 | ||||||
| Volume: | 5 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 19395078 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11467 |
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