{"product_id":"consciousness-and-cognition-9780195141818","title":"Consciousness and Cognition","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take. In this book  Michael Thau shows that  despite its naturalness  this conception begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. Exorcising these errors requires that we completely reconceive the nature of both consciousness and cognition as well as the fundamental problems each poses. Thau proceeds by discussing three famous and important philosophical puzzles - Spectrum Inversion  Freges Puzzle  and Black-and-White Mary - each of which concerns some aspect of either consciousness or cognition. It has gone unnoticed that at a certain important level of generality  each of these puzzles presents the very same problem and  in bringing out this common problem  the errors in our natural conception of consciousness and cognition are also brought out. Thaus book will appeal to the casual reader interested in the proper solution of these puzzles and the nature of consciousness and cognition. The discussion of Freges puzzle also contains important insights about the nature of linguistic communication and  hence  anyone interested in the fundamental questions in philosophy of language will also want to read the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67959099883573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195141814","price":64.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195141818.jpg?v=1794480569","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/consciousness-and-cognition-9780195141818","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}