Reference and Consciousness

by John Campbell

Overview

John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world; how our ability to think about objects we can see depends on our capacity for conscious visual attention to those things. He illuminates classical problems about thought, reference, and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199243815
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/27/2002
Series:	Oxford Cognitive Science Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	9.14(w) x 6.22(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

John Campbell is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Experiential Highlighting2. What is Knowledge of Reference? 3. Space and Action4. Sortals5. Sense6. The Relational View of Experience7. The Explanatory Role of Consciousness8. Joint Attention9. Memory Demonstratives10. The Anti-Realist Alternative11. Indeterminacy and Inscrutability12. Dispositional vs. CategoricalBibliographyIndex