ABSTRACT

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness. Each of the thirty-two chapters within this edited collection focuses on a major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, from Anscombe to Xuanzang, and imaginatively engages with the problem from their perspective.

 

Written by leading experts in the field, this exciting and engaging book explores the relevance of the history of philosophy to contemporary debates and therefore is essential reading for students and scholars studying the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of mind and consciousness, or both.

chapter 1|10 pages

Plato

chapter 2|8 pages

Aristotle

chapter 3|9 pages

Plotinus

chapter 4|9 pages

Vasubandhu/Xuanzang

chapter 5|8 pages

Dharmakı¯rti

chapter 6|9 pages

Avicenna

chapter 7|9 pages

Aquinas

chapter 8|10 pages

Descartes

chapter 9|9 pages

Locke

chapter 10|7 pages

Spinoza

chapter 11|7 pages

Leibniz

chapter 12|10 pages

Berkeley

chapter 13|9 pages

Hume

chapter 14|10 pages

Kant

chapter 15|8 pages

Hegel

chapter 16|9 pages

Schelling

chapter 17|10 pages

Schopenhauer

chapter 18|10 pages

James

chapter 19|10 pages

Nietzsche

chapter 20|5 pages

Frege

chapter 21|8 pages

Husserl

chapter 22|7 pages

Russell

chapter 23|7 pages

Collingwood

chapter 24|10 pages

Wittgenstein

chapter 25|8 pages

Heidegger

chapter 26|11 pages

Ryle

chapter 27|7 pages

Sartre

chapter 28|9 pages

Merleau-Ponty

chapter 29|9 pages

Quine

chapter 30|8 pages

Anscombe

chapter 31|11 pages

Derrida

chapter 32|8 pages

Rorty