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Thinking about Consciousness

Overview

Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau, is a book (published in 2002) about consciousness that describes what Papineau calls the 'Intuition of Distinctness'. He does not so much attempt to prove that materialism is right (although he presents his 'Causal argument' for it in the first chapter) as analyse why dualism seems intuitively plausible. He makes various propositions for future research in his book.

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Philosophers who discussed Thinking about Consciousness

• David Papineau

Related ideas

• Mind–body dualism
• Materialism
• Property dualism
• Explanatory gap
• Overdetermination
• David Papineau
• Consciousness

Place in the tradition

Part of Qualia.

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