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Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable. He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions. McGinn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionality. He argues that traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existent objects. These are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideas.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology States of consciousness

• Full title: Consciousness and its Objects
• Author: Colin McGinn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780199267606
• ID: 04531028
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 414 g
• Dimensions: 145 × 212 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2004

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