What is Consciousness? by Amy Kind, Daniel Stoljar - 9781032470627

What is Consciousness?A Debate\nAuthor(s): Amy Kind, Daniel Stoljar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032470627, 978-1032470627\nSynopsis\nWhat is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of \""standard\"" physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism [url] a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism, ay