{"product_id":"consciousness-and-its-objects","title":"Consciousness and its Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003eColin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished.  He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable.  He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions.   McGinn goes on to\n\u003cbr\u003ediscuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionality.  He argues\n\u003cbr\u003ethat traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existent objects. These are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084353302766,"sku":"9780199267606","price":183.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199267606.jpg?v=1706212444","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/consciousness-and-its-objects","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}