EAN: 9783030142612

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHILOSOPHY NEW CONVERSATION...

This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Inside  three scholars
offer approaches to the problems of identity  consciousness  and the mind. In the process  they
open new vistas for thought and raise fresh controversies to some of the oldest problems in
philosophy. The first chapter focuses on the identity problem. The author employs an
explanatory model he christened sense-phenomenalism to defend the thesis that personal identity
is something or a phenomenon that pertains to the observable perceptible aspect of the human
person. The next chapter explores the problem of consciousness. It deploys the new concept
equiphenomenalism as a model to show that mental properties are not by-products but necessary
products of consciousness. Herein  the notion of qualia is a fundamental and necessary product
that must be experienced simultaneously with neural activities for consciousness to be
possible. The last chapter addresses the mind body problem. It adopts the new concept
proto-phenomenalism as an alternative explanatory model. This model eliminates the idea of a
mind. As such  it approaches the mind-body problem from a materialistic point of view with many
implications such as  the meaning(lessness) of our existence  the possibility of thought
engineering as well as religious implications.

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