The Nile on eBay Consciousness and Meaning by Brian Loar
One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of subjectivity in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume brings together his most important and influential essays in the philosophy of language and of mind.
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One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind - and in particular, of consciousness and intentionality - in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades.This volume contains two parts; one a selection of Loar's essays on the philosophy of language, the other on the philosophy of mind. A common thread in Loar's essays on language ishis engagement with the Gricean program of reducing linguistic representation in terms of mental representation. In the philosophy of mind he was mostly concerned with understanding consciousness andintentionality (mental representation) from the subjective perspective. The central concern that unifies Loar's work in mind and language is how to understand subjectivity in a physical universe. He was committed to the reality and reliability of the subjective perspective; and he found that subjective phenomena like intentionality and consciousness are, in a certain sense, ineliminable and irreducible to objective ones. At the same time he believed that intentionality and consciousness aregrounded in the physical. One of his great contributions was showing how to reconcile these two positions by being a conceptual and explanatory anti-reductionist about both consciousness andintentionality but a metaphysical reductionist nonetheless. He had a deep commitment to both physicalism and to the reality and significance of the subjective point of view.
Author Biography
Brian Loar was a leading philosopher of mind and language for over forty years. Known as a subtle and elegant thinker, Loar developed a novel solution to the mind-body problem, contributed an influential account of phenomenal states and of phenomenal concepts, and presented what is perhaps the most fully articulated functionalist account of propositional attitudes in Mind and Meaning. Loar received his D. Phil. from Oxford University and taught at the University ofMichigan, the University of Southern California, and Rutgers University until he retired in 2009. Katalin Balog received her PhD at Rutgers University in 1998. She taught philosophy at CornellUniversity, and then Yale University between 1998 and 2010. In 2010 she moved to Rutgers University, Newark where she is still teaching. Her primary areas of research are the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The problems that interest her most, the nature of consciousness, the self, and free will, lie at their intersection. Her recent work centers on the relationship between our subjective, internal understanding of the mind and the objective, scientific view of the world. Stephanie Beardmanspecializes in metaethics and moral psychology. She is interested in diachronic rationality, the nature of practical reasons, and in the relevance of scientific studies to ethics. She received herPh.D. from Rutgers University and has been an Assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University; a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis; and the recipient of a Time-Out Grant from Vassar College. Currently she is a Visiting Scholar at New York University.
Table of Contents
Part I Philosophy of LanguageStephen Schiffer: Introduction to Part I1: Reference and Propositional Attitudes2: Two Theories of Meaning3: The Semantics of Singular Terms4: Must Beliefs Be Sentences?5: Names in Though6: Truth beyond All Verification7: The Supervenience of Social Meaning on Speaker's MeaningPart II Philosophy of MindKatalin Balog: Introduction to Part II8: Social Content and Psychological Content9: Subjective Intentionality10: Phenomenal States11: Can We Explain Intentionality?12: Elimination versus Nonreductive Physicalism13: Reference from the First Person Perspective14: Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia15: Phenomenal Intentionality as the Basis of Mental Content
Review
Review from previous edition 'This excellent book . . . provides a new (and wonderful) opportunity to gain a complete image of Loar's worldview . . . Brian Loar's work was wide ranging, systematic, challenging, and deep. This is an important book, and will hopefully lead to Loar's work being better known, and better appreciated, in future.' * Henry Taylor, Philosophy, (2019), 94 (3), pp.473-476 *'We are all grateful to the editors for making these seminal papers available in one volume . . . the philosophical depth and insight manifested throughout the papers is striking' * Joseph Levine, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (2018) *
Long Description
One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind - and in particular, of consciousness and intentionality - in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades.This volume contains two parts; one a selection of Loar's essays on the philosophy of language, the other on the philosophy of mind. A common thread in Loar's essays on language is his engagement with the Gricean program of reducing linguistic representation in terms of mental representation. In the philosophy of mind he was mostly concerned with understanding consciousness and intentionality (mental representation) from the subjective perspective. The central concern that unifies Loar's workin mind and language is how to understand subjectivity in a physical universe. He was committed to the reality and reliability of the subjective perspective; and he found that subjective phenomena like intentionality and consciousness are, in a certain sense, ineliminable and irreducible to objectiveones. At the same time he believed that intentionality and consciousness are grounded in the physical. One of his great contributions was showing how to reconcile these two positions by being a conceptual and explanatory anti-reductionist about both consciousness and intentionality but a metaphysical reductionist nonetheless. He had a deep commitment to both physicalism and to the reality and significance of the subjective point of view.
Review Quote
Review from previous edition 'This excellent book . . . provides a new (and wonderful) opportunity to gain a complete image of Loar's worldview . . . Brian Loar's work was wide ranging, systematic, challenging, and deep. This is an important book, and will hopefully lead to Loar's work being better known, and better appreciated, in future.'
Feature
A collection of the best essays of this eminent philosopher.Essays are collected into two distinct sections, focusing on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.Focuses on one of the most important problems in analytic philosophy - the place of the mind in a physical universe.
Details ISBN0199673365 Author Brian Loar Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 0199673365 ISBN-13 9780199673360 Short Title Consciousness and Meaning Language English Format Paperback Subtitle Selected Essays Pages 344 Publication Date 2020-06-16 UK Release Date 2020-06-16 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-06-16 Illustrator Anais Goldemberg Edited by Kok Khoo Phua Birth 1927 Affiliation Group of Policy Advisers, European Commission Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications PhD Alternative 9780199673353 DEWEY 121.68 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-06-24 We've got this
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