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Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
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Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Daniel Stoljar


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Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world.
The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience distinct from the physical, nor to deny the reality of phenomenal experience, nor even to rethink our understanding of consciousness and the language we use to talk about it. Instead, we should view the problem itself as a consequence of our ignorance of the relevant physical facts. Stoljar shows that this change of orientation is well motivated historically, empirically, and philosophically, and that it has none of the side effects it is sometimes thought to have. The result is a philosophical perspective on the mind that has a number of far-reaching consequences: for consciousness studies, for our place in nature, and for the way we think about the relationship between philosophy and science.

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  • Title Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
  • Author Daniel Stoljar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2006-05-25
  • ISBN 9780195306583 / 0195306589
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Consciousness, Epistemics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005054714
  • Dewey Decimal Code 126

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Daniel Stoljar was educated as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently Senior Fellow in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He lives in Canberra with his wife Helen Keane and their two sons.
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