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Consciousness, intentionality, and rationality are all features of the mind that philosophers have thought it difficult to account for in naturalistic terms, but it is consciousness that is often considered the most problematic-- In particular, how precisely to explain the relationship of qualia, the subjective, first-person features of conscious experience, to the brain (and to the objective, third-person material world in general) is regarded as the central part of the mind-body problem. I argue that materialism and dualism in all their forms have failed to explain this relationship, and that their failure indicates a need to rethink the conceptions of mind and matter typically presupposed by both common sense and philosophical reflection. As Bertrand Russell suggested in some neglected writings, our knowledge of the material world external to the mind is indirect, mediated by our direct awareness of qualia themselves; and what we know of that external world is really only its causal structure rather than its intrinsic nature. The common assumption that matter as it is in itself is utterly unlike mind as revealed in introspection is thus unfounded; in fact, in our introspection o

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Author

Edward Feser

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EN

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nonfiction