Patricia S. Churchland - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
Editor's opinion - Together with her husband Paul they are undoubtedly the leading philosophers of the modern age. Their publications are a must read for any philosophy student or seeker after knowledge.
WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT FROM A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
Patricia Smith Churchland
Philosophy Department,
University of California San Diego
I. INTRODUCTION:
Within the domain of philosophy, it is not unusual to hear the claim that most questions about the nature of consciousness are essentially and absolutely beyond the scope of science, no matter how science may develop in the twenty-first century. Some things, it is pointed out, we shall never ever understand, and consciousness is one of them (Vendler 1994, Swinburne 1994, McGinn 1989, Nagel 1994, Warner 1994). One line of reasoning assumes that consciousness is the manifestation of a distinctly nonphysical thing, and hence has no physical properties that might be explored by techniques suitable to physical things. ...
Editor's opinion - Together with her husband Paul they are undoubtedly the leading philosophers of the modern age. Their publications are a must read for any philosophy student or seeker after knowledge.
WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT FROM A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
Patricia Smith Churchland
Philosophy Department,
University of California San Diego
I. INTRODUCTION:
Within the domain of philosophy, it is not unusual to hear the claim that most questions about the nature of consciousness are essentially and absolutely beyond the scope of science, no matter how science may develop in the twenty-first century. Some things, it is pointed out, we shall never ever understand, and consciousness is one of them (Vendler 1994, Swinburne 1994, McGinn 1989, Nagel 1994, Warner 1994). One line of reasoning assumes that consciousness is the manifestation of a distinctly nonphysical thing, and hence has no physical properties that might be explored by techniques suitable to physical things. ...
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