附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-340) and indexes.
Assumptions, distinctions, and a map -- Perspectival, subjective, and worldly facts -- Explanatory gaps and qualia -- Naturalisation and narrow content -- First-order representationalism -- Against first-order representationalism -- Higher-order representationalism : a first defence -- Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (1) : function -- Dispositionalist higher-order thought theory (2) : feel -- Phenomenal consciousness and language -- Fragmentary consciousness and the Cartesian theatre.
摘要:Argues that the subjective feel of our experience is fully explicable in naturalistic (scientifically acceptable) terms, and develops and defends a novel account in terms of higher-order thought. Essential reading for all those in philosophy and the cognitive sciences who are interested in the problem of consciousness.