Spectator in the Cartesian Theater | Buch

Cover: 9781666923759 | Spectator in the Cartesian Theater | Peter Slezak | Buch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

The "Cartesian Theater" is Dennett's famous metaphor for the idea that a homunculus or "little man" watches the screen on which our thoughts appear. However, contrary to much academic teaching and scholarship, Spectator in the Cartesian Theater: Where Theories of Mind Went Wrong since Descartes shows that Descartes was not guilty of this fallacy for which he has been blamed. In his physiological writings neglected by philosophers, Descartes explained that the pseudo-explanation arises not from what is included in our theory of consciousness, but rather from what is missing. We fail to notice that the theory is incomplete because we are intuitively doing part of the explanatory work. That is, we are the spectators in the Cartesian Theater.

With detailed critiques, Peter Slezak shows that Searle's Chinese Room Argument, Kripke's theory of proper names, Davidson's semantics of natural language and Kosslyn's theory of visual imagery rely on what is intuitively meaningful to us rather than what follows from the theory. Slezak offers a novel solution to the elusive logic of the Cogito argument, showing it to be akin to the Liar Paradox. Since Descartes' perplexity is our own, this shows how the subjective certainty of consciousness and the mind-body problem can arise for a physical system. An intelligent computer would think that it isn't one.

Über den Autor

Peter Slezak is honorary associate professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Illusions

Chapter 1. Dangerous Meditations

Chapter 2. Illusionism and The Phenomenological Fallacy

Chapter 3. What It's Like: Conscious Experience Itself

Chapter 4. Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Diagonal Deduction

Chapter 5. The Mind's Eye: Visual Imagery

Chapter 6. In the Chinese Room: Life without meaning

Chapter 7. Meaning: Interpretation or Explanation?

Chapter 8. Proper Names: The Omniscient Observer

Chapter 9. The Theory of Ideas: Fodor's Guilty Passions

Chapter 10. Descartes' Neurocomputational Philosophy

Chapter 11. What is Knowledge? The Gettier Problem

Chapter 12. Disjunctivism: The Argument from Illusion (Again)

Chapter 13. Newcomb's Problem: Demons, Deceivers, and Liars

Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781666923759
ISBN-10:	1666923753
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Slezak, Peter
Hersteller:	Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Slezak
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2023
Gewicht:	0,713 kg