Preface.
1. Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?.
2. Consciousness and Content.
3. Consciousness and the Natural Order.
4. The Hidden Structure of Consciousness.
5. Mental States, Natural Kinds and Psychophysical Laws.
6. Philosophical Materialism.
7. Functionalism and Phenomenalism: A Critical Note.
8. Could a Machine be Conscious?.
Index.
Colin McGinn was formerly Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind (1981), The Subjective View (1982), Wittgenstein on Meaning (Blackwell, 1984) and Mental Content (Blackwell, 1989).
"These essays provide a vivid introduction to current views in the philosophy of mind and to their immediate precursors ... an up-to-date, sophisticated and enjoyably tendentious account ... if you want to read somebody clever worrying about a problem that's worth somebody clever's worrying about, read The Problem of Consciousness." Jerry Fodor, London Review of Books
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