ABSTRACT
Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental. This "inexplicability" is demonstrated not to be sufficient as refutation of physicalism. However, the inescapable particularity of modes of consciousness appears to overpower this minimal physicalism. This book proposes that such an inference requires either a wholly new conception of how consciousness is physical or a deep and disturbing new kind of physical inexplicability.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |70 pages
The Retreat of Physicalism
chapter |23 pages
Physicalism, Ontology and Explanation
chapter |21 pages
Positive Reductive Strategies
chapter |24 pages
Negative Reductive Strategies
part |94 pages
The Problem of Consciousness