{"product_id":"combining-minds-9798869156426","title":"Combining Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis explores the possibility of composite consciousness: phenomenally conscious states\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelonging to a composite being in virtue of the consciousness of, and relations among, its parts. We\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave no trouble accepting that a composite being has physical properties entirely in virtue of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephysical properties of, and relations among, its parts. But a long-standing intuition holds that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsciousness is different: my consciousness cannot be understood as a complex of interacting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomponent consciousnesses belonging to parts of me. I ask why: what is it about consciousness that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emakes us think it so different from matter? And should we accept this apparent difference?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Combinationism' - the thesis that intelligibly constitutive composition is possible in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperiential realm - bears on many debates in the metaphysics of mind. Constitutive panpsychism's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eneed for combinationism is at the centre of recent criticism of the theory, but physicalists also need\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean account of how the consciousness, or lack thereof, in two cerebral hemispheres and a whole brain, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor a human being and their head, or a social group and its individual members, can be intelligibly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelated. And further back in history, the supposed simplicity of the soul was held to rule out any\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eform of materialism, in a tradition of argument stretching from Plotinus to Brentano. With an eye to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis diversity of debates, I examine the prospects for combinationists with a range of different\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebackground views about the nature of consciousness, the ontological status of the subject, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebehaviour of the physical part-whole relation, and the notions of constitution and explanation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethemselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mahadevan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50839632347410,"sku":"9798869156426","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43b99cf5-1333-43b7-a6c3-6e01ab29817f.jpg?v=1740429980","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/combining-minds-9798869156426","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}