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Consciousness and Meaning : Selected Essays, Paperback / softback Book

Consciousness and Meaning : Selected Essays Paperback / softback

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One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind - and in particular, of consciousness and intentionality - in a purely physical universe.

Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume contains two parts; one a selection of Loar's essays on the philosophy of language, the other on the philosophy of mind.

A common thread in Loar's essays on language is his engagement with the Gricean program of reducing linguistic representation in terms of mental representation.

In the philosophy of mind he was mostly concerned with understanding consciousness and intentionality (mental representation) from the subjective perspective.

The central concern that unifies Loar's work in mind and language is how to understand subjectivity in a physical universe.

He was committed to the reality and reliability of the subjective perspective; and he found that subjective phenomena like intentionality and consciousness are, in a certain sense, ineliminable and irreducible to objective ones.

At the same time he believed that intentionality and consciousness are grounded in the physical.

One of his great contributions was showing how to reconcile these two positions by being a conceptual and explanatory anti-reductionist about both consciousness and intentionality but a metaphysical reductionist nonetheless.

He had a deep commitment to both physicalism and to the reality and significance of the subjective point of view.

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