Bridging the Gap

How Conceptual Change can Remove the Obstacles to a Scientific Explanation of Consciousness.
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-7574-0037-8
Verlag: Schwabe Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 1, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 1520 mm x 2200 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Theoria

Can consciousness be scientifically explained? While scientific knowledge of the brain is still lacking in many ways, philosophers like Joseph Levine and David Chalmers have already argued that such an explanation is impossible. The book addresses this widely discussed argument from a new angle: It starts from the fact that the arguments for the so called “explanatory gap” rely crucially on our current concept of consciousness. The present work therefore looks at the possibility of conceptual change as a way to remove the obstacles to a scientific explanation of consciousness. It presents a possible development of our concept of consciousness which would allow for an explanation and shows that the arguments for the gap can therefore be refuted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schomäcker, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Schomäcker, Astrid
Astrid Schomäcker studied philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universidad de Granada and New York University. Her dissertation project was part of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Currently she is a post-doctoral researcher at University Duisburg-Essen.

Astrid Schomäcker studied philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universidad de Granada and New York University. Her project was part of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.