Purple Haze
The Puzzle of Consciousness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10693665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Byrne (0000-0003-3652-1492), Alex Byrne |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 594 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, Joseph Levine, 2001 |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1556435 |
| OpenAlex | W3161553380 |
| Language | EN |
Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious experience. In this wide-ranging study, Joseph Levine explores both sides of the mind-body dilemma, presenting the first book-length treatment of his highly influential ideas on the explanatory the fact that we can't explain the nature of phenomenal experience in terms of its physical realization. He presents a careful argument that there is such a gap, and, after providing intriguing analyses of virtually all existing theories of consciousness, shows that recent attempts to close it fall short of the mark. Levine concludes that in the foreseeable future consciousness will remain a mystery
Argument (complex analysis) · Consciousness · Dilemma · Epistemology · Materialism · Order (exchange) · Thought experiment · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Psychology
Consciousness, Theories of
The Search for Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Instrumentalismo E a Ciência Da Consciência
Better bridges
The minimal self hypothesis
Neural correlates of consciousness reconsidered
Measuring the mental
Varieties of self-systems worth having
Voices and noises in the theory of speech acts
Misrepresentation and mental appearance
Abduction and Modality
Naturalizing Subjective Character
Zombies and Epiphenomenalism
How Things Seem to Higher-Order Thought Theorists
Referring to the Qualitative Dimension of Consciousness
Epistemology and Possibility
Intentionality
Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias
Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness
Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience
Dual Explanandum Strategy
Nonconceptualism as the key to a new physicalist strategy in the knowledge argument
Conscious Self-Evidencing
Does the Intuition of Distinctness Result from Valid Reasoning? – Reply to Kammerer
Higher-Order Awareness of What
Physicalism Without Fundamentality
A heterodox defense of the actualist higher-order thought theory
Russellian physicalism and its dilemma
The illusion of conscious experience
Categoricalism, dispositionalism, and the epistemology of properties
No ground to bridge the gap
Same old, same old
Can self-representationalism explain away the apparent irreducibility of consciousness
Building low level causation out of high level causation
Explanation and modality
Mechanisms and constitutive relevance
Is the mystery an illusion? Papineau on the problem of consciousness
The Q Factor
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |