John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world. So your ability to think about objects you can see depends on your capacity for conscious visual attention to those things. "Reference and Consciousness" illuminates classical problems about thought, reference and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.
John Campbell is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford University.
Introduction ; 1. Experiential Highlighting ; 2. What is Knowledge of Reference? ; 3. Space and Action ; 4. Sortals ; 5. Sense ; 6. The Relational View of Experience ; 7. The Explanatory Role of Consciousness ; 8. Joint Attention ; 9. Memory Demonstratives ; 10. The Anti-Realist Alternative ; 11. Indeterminacy and Inscrutability ; 12. Dispositional vs. Categorical ; Bibliography ; Index
This is important work which should be widely read.
John Campbell, Matthew T. Page, Council on Foreign Relations) Campbell, John (Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Centre for Democracy and Development) Page, Matthew T. (Fellow, Fellow
John Campbell, Joey Huston, Frank Krauss, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Campbell, John (Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Michigan State University) Huston, Joey (MSU Foundation Professor of Physics and Astronomy, MSU Foundation Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University) Krauss, Frank (Professor for Particle Physics, Professor for Particle Physics, Department of Physics
Robert C. Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Stalnaker, Robert C. (Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Robert Stalnaker
Robert C. Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Stalnaker, Robert C. (Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Pierre Jacob, Marc Jeannerod, France) Jacob, Pierre (, Researcher at CNRS, Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France) Jeannerod, Marc (, Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby
Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater, UK) Oaksford, Mike (Professor of Psychology and Head of School, Birkbeck College London, UK) Chater, Nick (Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University College London
Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater, UK) Oaksford, Mike (Professor of Psychology and Head of School, Birkbeck College London, UK) Chater, Nick (Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University College London
Jonathan Evans, David Over, UK) Evans, Jonathan (Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK) Over, David (Division of Psychology, University of Sunderland
Robert C. Stalnaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Stalnaker, Robert C. (Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Robert Stalnaker
Pierre Jacob, Marc Jeannerod, France) Jacob, Pierre (, Researcher at CNRS, Director of the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France) Jeannerod, Marc (, Professor in Physiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby
Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater, UK) Oaksford, Mike (Professor of Psychology and Head of School, Birkbeck College London, UK) Chater, Nick (Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University College London