Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, is the coauthor (with Russell T. Hurlburt) of Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (MIT Press, 2007).
Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s, researchers found that most people reported dreaming in black and white. In the 1960s—when most movies were in color and more people had color television sets—the vast majority of reported dreams contained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams. It is that we simply don’t know whether or not we dream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various aspects of inner life—dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena—and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.
Western philosophical tradition is nearly unanimous on the accuracy of our knowledge or current conscious experience. Schwitzgebel is skeptical. Drawing broadly from historical and recent philosophy and psychology to examine such topics as visual perspective, human echolocation (about which he is doubtful), and the unreliability of introspection even about emotional states (do we really enjoy Christmas? a family dinner?), he finds us singularly inept in our judgments about conscious experience.
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評分有個案有哲學史又有科普,概念分析倒是沒多少。作者在導論裏說,他不希望自己的書實質上是基於抽象的哲學論證的,同時也對關於意識的形而上學持懷疑態度。作者想通過本書告訴大傢:我們對於自己經驗的認識往往是不可靠的。
評分有個案有哲學史又有科普,概念分析倒是沒多少。作者在導論裏說,他不希望自己的書實質上是基於抽象的哲學論證的,同時也對關於意識的形而上學持懷疑態度。作者想通過本書告訴大傢:我們對於自己經驗的認識往往是不可靠的。
評分有個案有哲學史又有科普,概念分析倒是沒多少。作者在導論裏說,他不希望自己的書實質上是基於抽象的哲學論證的,同時也對關於意識的形而上學持懷疑態度。作者想通過本書告訴大傢:我們對於自己經驗的認識往往是不可靠的。
評分有個案有哲學史又有科普,概念分析倒是沒多少。作者在導論裏說,他不希望自己的書實質上是基於抽象的哲學論證的,同時也對關於意識的形而上學持懷疑態度。作者想通過本書告訴大傢:我們對於自己經驗的認識往往是不可靠的。
Perplexities of Consciousness 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載