Sisyphus's Boulder
Consciousness And The Limits Of The Knowable (Advances in Consciousness Research)
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Publication
2005-01-30 - John Benjamins Publishing Co
Language
English
Word Count
32,500 words, Guess
Page Count
130 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesisyphussboulder00diet
- ISBN-101588116026
- ISBN-139781588116024
- Goodreads2960391
- Library of Congress Control Number2004059570
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number56686394
- Better World Books9781588116024
- Open LibraryOL8827217M
Classifications
- LCCB808.9 .D54 2004
- LCCB808.9.D54 2004
Description
"Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained. Consequently, philosophical debates over materialism and dualism are a waste of time. Scientific explanations of consciousness fare no better. Scientists do study consciousness, and such investigations will continue to grow and advance. However, none of them will ever reveal what consciousness is. In addition, given the centrality of consciousness in philosophy, Dietrich and Hardcastle claim that philosophy itself needs to change. That the central problems of philosophy persist is actually a profound epistemic fact about humans. Philosophy, then, is a limit to what humans can understand."--Jacket.
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- Sisyphus's Boulder: Consciousness And The Limits Of The Knowable (Advances in Consciousness Research)
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