Abstract:It is customary to distinguish five forms of consciousness: agent consciousness (which is what we have in mind when we say of an agent that he is “losing consciousness” or “regaining consciousness”), ...It is customary to distinguish five forms of consciousness: agent consciousness (which is what we have in mind when we say of an agent that he is “losing consciousness” or “regaining consciousness”), propositional consciousness (which is expressed by the “conscious that” construction), introspective consciousness (which is what we have in mind when we say things like “His affection for me is fully conscious, but his hostility is not”), relational consciousness (which is expressed by the “conscious of” construction), and phenomenal consciousness (which is a property that mental states possess when they have a phenomenological dimension – that is, when they present us with such qualitative characteristics as pain and the taste of oranges).Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-10-22
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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