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Published 2017.
In 1968, David Armstrong asked ?what is a man?? What is the conscious mind? What is experience? This book starts from his reply ?he is a certain sort of material object?, but proceeds along ...
Published 2017.
In 1968, David Armstrong asked ?what is a man?? What is the conscious mind? What is experience? This book starts from his reply ?he is a certain sort of material object?, but proceeds along a radically different path. The book puts forward and defends a mind-object identity theory: Being conscious of an object is just that object being me. The proposal is matched against a series of objections of both conceptual and empirical nature and eventually compared with existing externalist approaches - disjunctivism, realism, embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind. Dwelling on recent empirical findings from perception and neuroscience, the proposal is defended from traditional objections such as the argument from illusion, hallucinations, dreams, and mental imagery. Can experience and objects be one and the same?
