Blockheads!: Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness

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Adam Pautz (Professor, Brown University) Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University)

Blockheads!

Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness

Adam Pautz (Professor, Brown University), Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University), Bill Brewer (King's College London) , Ned Block (New York University)

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MIT Press
12 February 2019

Philosophy of mind; Drug-induced states

Series: The MIT Press

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.

Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity. Over the course of his career, Block has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of intelligence, representation, and consciousness. Blockheads! (the title refers to Block's imaginary counterexample to the Turing test-and to the Block-enthusiast contributors) offers eighteen new essays on Block's work along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by Block. The essays and responses not only address Block's past contributions but are rich with new ideas and argument. They importantly clarify many key elements of Block's work, including his pessimism concerning such thought experiments as Commander Data and the Nation of China; his more general pessimism about intuitions and introspection in the philosophy of mind; the empirical case for an antifunctionalist, biological theory of phenomenal consciousness; the fading qualia problem for a biological theory; the link between phenomenal consciousness and representation (especially spatial representation); and the reducibility of phenomenal representation. Many of the contributors to Blockheads! are prominent philosophers themselves, including Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, and Hilary Putnam.

Contributors Ned Block, Bill Brewer, Richard Brown, Tyler Burge, Marisa Carrasco, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, Hakwan Lau, Geoffrey Lee, Janet Levin, Joseph Levine, William G. Lycan, Brian P. McLaughlin, Adam Pautz, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Susanna Siegel, Nicholas Silins, Daniel Stoljar, Michael Tye, Sebastian Watzl

Contributions by: Bill Brewer (King's College London), Ned Block (New York University), Tyler Burge (Professor, University of Caiifornia, Los Angeles)
Edited by: Adam Pautz (Professor Brown University), Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 33mm
ISBN: 9780262038720
ISBN 10: 0262038722
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 648
Publication Date: 12 February 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Pautz is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University and was Chair of the Philosophy Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He is a coeditor of The Nature of Consciousness- Philosophical Debates (MIT Press, 1997). Tyler Burge is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. William G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Hilary Putnam was Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University. Michael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ten Problems of Consciousness (1995), Consciousness, Color, and Content (2000), and Consciousness and Persons (2003), all published by the MIT Press.