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Type: | Book chapter |
Title: | The structure of phenomenal consciousness |
Author: | Opie, J. O'Brien, G. |
Citation: | The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Science and Theory, 2015 / Miller, S. (ed./s), Ch.[20], pp.445-464 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing |
Publisher Place: | Amsterdam |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Series/Report no.: | Advances in Consciousness Research; 92 |
ISBN: | 9027268789 9789027213594 |
Editor: | Miller, S. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jonathan P. Opie and Gerard J. O’Brien |
Abstract: | Philosophers have largely abandoned the claim that the special sciences will ultimately reduce to microphysics in favour of the view that the special sciences trade in functional explanations. However, a careful examination of scientific practice reveals that the explanatory strategy of the special sciences is neither reductionist nor functionalist, but mechanistic. Mechanistic explanations appeal to active material entities organized so as to produce the target phenomena. We claim that phenomenal consciousness will also succumb to mechanistic explanation: it will turn out to be the activity of specific neural mechanisms in the brain. In this chapter we explore the implications of this perspective for the ontology of consciousness, arguing that it has a complex structural essence. |
Keywords: | Psychology |
Rights: | © 2015 - John Benjamins B.V. |
DOI: | 10.1075/aicr.92.20opi |
Published version: | https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/aicr.92/main |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Media Studies publications |
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