Daniel Stoljar was educated as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently Senior Fellow in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife Helen Keane and their two sons.
"Stoljar's book presents a well argued thesis that gives rise to
many questions and should stimulate many thoughts about the problem
of experience."--Biagio G. Tasssone, Metapsychology Online
Reviews
"I regard Ignorance and Imagination as an extremely valuable book.
There is a great deal of contemporary interest among philosophers
in the epistemic solution to the problem of consciousness. Stoljar
explores this solution with care, clarity, and a great deal of
ingenuity. Anybody who wants to be fully informed about the
epistemic view should read this book."--David Papineau, Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews
"Stoljar's book makes a fresh and invaluable contribution to the
literature on consciousness. To articulate so crisply such a
theoretically original yet pre-theoretically natural position; to
argue for it so comprehensively and so agilely, and moreover in a
way that clarifies tremendously the logical structure of the issues
involved; to address the relevant considerations and alternative
options so thoroughly and so relentlessly, amounts in the end to
an
intellectual achievement of the first magnitude. Most of all, it is
a testament to the book's force that by the time one is finished
with it, one finds it astonishing that its central thesis had never
been
seriously defended before. To my mind, with the publication of this
book the epistemic view has earned its place among the handful of
leading options for handling the problem of
consciousness."--Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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