Matthew Soteriou

The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Soteriou provides an original philosophical account of sensory and cognitive aspects of consciousness. He explores distinctions of temporal character in our mental lives--especially in relation to the exercise of agency--and illuminates the more general issue of the place and role of mental action in the metaphysics of mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780199678457
• ISBN-10: 0199678456
• Artikelnr.: 37600967

Autorenporträt

Matthew Soteriou is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, and epistemology, with a particular focus on perception, mental action and the ontology of mind. He is currently Editor of the Aristotelian Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Part I. Sensory Consciousness
* 1: The Manifest Image of Sensory Consciousness
* 2: Occurrence, State, Content, and Character
* 3: The Phenomenology and Ontology of Bodily Sensation
* 4: Temporal Transparency and Perceptual Acquaintance
* 5: Structural Features of Perceptual Acquaintance
* 6: Conscious Contact with Time and the Continuity of Consciousness
* 7: Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Recollection
* 8: Introspection and Knowing What it's like
* Part II. Conscious Thinking
* 9: The Place of Mental Action in the Metaphysics of Mind
* 10: The Ontology of Conscious Thinking
* 11: 'The mind uses its own freedom': Suppositional Reasoning and
Self-Critical Reflection
* 12: Mental Action, Autonomy, and the Perspective of Practical Reason
* 13: Intention-in-Action and the Epistemology of Mind
* 14: Reconsidering the Place of Mental action in the Metaphysics of
Mind
* 15: Thinking and Belief
* References
* Index