Is there anything it is like to be a bat?

Philosophy

Volumn 77, Issue 300, 2002, Pages 157-174

  Hacker, P M S ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144446672     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819102000220     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Stuart Sutherland, International Dictionary of Psychology
2. P. N. Johnson-Laird, The Computer and the Mind (London: Fontana Press, 1988). p. 353
3. T. D. Albright, T. M. Jessel, E. R. Kandel and M. I. Posner, 'Neural Science: A Century of Progress and the Mysteries that Remain', Cell vol. 100 and Neuron vol. 25 Review Supplement S40
4. D. J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. xi
5. Ned Block. 'Qualia', in S. Guttenplan (ed.) Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), p. 514
6. J. R. Searle, 'Consciousness', Annual Review, p. 560
7. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, p. 4
8. I. Glynn, An Anatomy of Thought (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999), p. 392
9. A. Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens (London: Heineman, 1999), p. 9. Note that there is here an unargued assumption that colour and sound are not properties of objects but of sense-impressions
10. G. Edelman and G. Tononi, Consciousness - How Matter Becomes Imagination (London: Allen Lane, 2000), p. 157
11. E. Lomand, 'Consciousness', in Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998), vol. 2, p. 581
12. Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness (London: Granta Books, 1997), p. xiv
13. T. Nagel, 'What is it like to be a bat?', repr. in Mortal Questions (Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 166
14. M. Davies and G. W. Humphreys (ed.) Consciousness (Blackwell, Oxford 1993), p. 9
15. D. Dennett, 'Consciousness', in R. L. Gregory (ed.) The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Oxford University Press, 1987). p. 161
16. Edelman and Tononi, Consciousness - How Matter becomes Imagination, p. 11
17. Cf Searle, The Mysteries of Consciousness, p. 201
18. Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), Vol. 1, §896
19. Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), p. 71
20. Further steps are taken in M. R. Bennett and P. M. S. Hacker, The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (forthcoming). I am grateful to Professor O. Hanfling, Dr J. Hyman, and Professor H. Oberdiek for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper