John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world. So your ability to think about objects you can see depends on your capacity for conscious visual attention to those things. "Reference and Consciousness" illuminates classical problems about thought, reference and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.
ISBN: | 9780199243808 |
Publication date: | 6th June 2002 |
Author: | John (, Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, Oxford University) Campbell |
Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 278 pages |
Series: | Oxford Cognitive Science Series |
Genres: |
Psychology: states of consciousness Philosophy of mind Cognition and cognitive psychology Philosophy of language Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Cognitivism, cognitive theory |