Consciousness and cognition /
Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite i...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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Series: | Philosophy of mind series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Summary: | Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite its naturalness, this conception begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. Exorcising these errors requires that we completely reconceive the nature of both consciousness and cognition as well as the fundamental problems each poses. Thau proceeds by discussing three famous and important. |
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Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780195349658 0195349652 9780195141818 0195141814 |