Abstract
Philosopher David Rosenthal (born in 1939) has been particularly active in the field of philosophy of mind and consciousness. He is the current Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Graduate Center’s Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science at the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his education from the University of Chicago and Princeton University.
Explaining what it is in virtue of which conscious states differ
from mental states that aren’t conscious is the principal goal
of a theory of consciousness. And it’s fairly straightforward
to get a start on that question. When a mental state is conscious,
the individual that’s in that state is conscious of it;
when a mental state fails to be conscious, that individual
is in no way whatever conscious of that state.
(Consciousness and Mind)
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Rosenthal D (2005) Consciousness and mind. Clarendon, Oxford
Rosenthal D (2008) Consciousness and its function. Neuropsychologia 46:829–840
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Cavanna, A.E., Nani, A. (2014). David Rosenthal. In: Consciousness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_14
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