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The Constitution of Consciousness Wolfgang Huemer

The Constitution of Consciousness By Wolfgang Huemer

The Constitution of Consciousness by Wolfgang Huemer


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The question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This work demonstrates that Husserl's phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness can provide fruitful insights for developing an original approach to these questions.

The Constitution of Consciousness Summary

The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology by Wolfgang Huemer

Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness can provide fruitful insights for developing an original approach to these questions.

About Wolfgang Huemer

Wolfgang Huemer teaches philosophy at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is co-editor of The LiteraryWittgenstein (Routledge, 2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Why Do We Need a Theory of Constitution? Chapter 2 The History of the Notion of Constitution: Two Case Studies 2.1 Why Constitution? Why Husserl? Why Haugeland? 2.2 Husserl's Notion of Constitution: A Short Outline of its Development 2.3 Haugeland's 'Constitutive Standards' 2.4 Some Central Features of Constitution: Contrasting Husserl and Haugeland Chapter 3 Toward a Theory of Constitution 3.1 The Fundamental Difference between the Realm of the Mental and the Realm of the Physical 3.2 Causal Theories and Holistic Background 3.3 Constituting Objects 3.4 Developing Constitutive Commitment 3.5 The Constitution of Mental Episodes Chapter 4 The Social Foundation of the Mind 4.1 In What Sense Are Mental Episodes Social? 4.2 What Kinds of Rational Relation are there? 4.3 Perceptual Experience vs. the Social Dimension of the Logical Space of Reasons: the Brandom-McDowell Debate 4.4 The Social Aspect of the Mind and Phenomenological Analysis Chapter 5 Constitution and Idealism 5.1 A Wittgensteinian Argument 5.2 Constitution and the Realism-Idealism Debate Conclusion Bibliography Index

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NPB9780415971294
9780415971294
0415971292
The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology by Wolfgang Huemer
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-12-13
128
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