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Qualia and Materialism: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Don Ross  and
John Thorp
Don Ross
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
John Thorp
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
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Extract

Though the days of consciousness-raising are mostly passed, the days of consciousness seem to be upon us, or, at least, to be upon philosophers. Dennett's recent Consciousness Explained is the flagship for a flotilla of new major works on the subject, by Flanagan (1992), Jackendoff (1988), Searle (1992), Seager (1992) and others. It seems to be something of a convention in such work that one begins by complaining that consciousness is a sorely neglected topic among philosophers; this cliché has created the faintly comical situation in which everyone is saying that no one is talking about consciousness. For our part, therefore, we shall seek to escape the convention by inverting it: here are yet more papers about consciousness.

Type
Qualia and Materialism/Les Qualia et le matérialisme
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 32 , Issue 3: Philosophy of Mind , Summer 1993 , pp. 435 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1993

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