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Reference and consciousness

Author: John Campbell
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Oxford cognitive science series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Campbell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to attend selectively to the objects of which we are aware; that this capacity for conscious attention to a perceived object is what provides us with our knowledge of reference. When someone makes a reference to a perceived object, your knowledge of which thing they are
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John Campbell
ISBN: 0199243808 9780199243808 0199243816 9780199243815
OCLC Number: 48397531
Description: vii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Experiential Highlighting --
2. What is Knowledge of Reference? --
3. Space and Action --
4. Sortals --
5. Sense --
6. The Relational View of Experience --
7. The Explanatory Role of Consciousness --
8. Joint Attention --
9. Memory Demonstratives --
10. The Anti-Realist Alternative --
11. Indeterminacy and Inscrutability --
12. Dispositional vs. Categorical.
Series Title: Oxford cognitive science series.
Responsibility: John Campbell.
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Abstract:

"What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Campbell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to attend selectively to the objects of which we are aware; that this capacity for conscious attention to a perceived object is what provides us with our knowledge of reference. When someone makes a reference to a perceived object, your knowledge of which thing they are talking about is constituted by your consciously attending to the relevant object. Campbell articulates the connections between these three concepts: reference, attention, and consciousness.

He looks at the metaphysical conception of the environment demanded by such an account, and at the demands imposed on our conception of consciousness by the point that consciousness of objects is what explains our capacity to think about them. He argues that empirical work on the binding problem can illuminate our grasp of the way in which we have knowledge of reference, supplied by conscious attention to the relevant object. Reference and Consciousness illuminates fundamental problems about thought, reference, and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends. It is an original and stimulating contribution to philosophy and to cognitive science."--BOOK JACKET.

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