{"product_id":"blockheads-isbn-9780262038720","title":"Blockheads!","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity. Over the course of his career, Block has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of intelligence, representation, and consciousness. \u003ci\u003eBlockheads!\u003c\/i\u003e (the title refers to Block's imaginary counterexample to the Turing test—and to the Block-enthusiast contributors) offers eighteen new essays on Block's work along with substantive and wide-ranging replies by Block. The essays and responses not only address Block's past contributions but are rich with new ideas and argument. They importantly clarify many key elements of Block's work, including his pessimism concerning such thought experiments as Commander Data and the Nation of China; his more general pessimism about intuitions and introspection in the philosophy of mind; the empirical case for an antifunctionalist, biological theory of phenomenal consciousness; the fading qualia problem for a biological theory; the link between phenomenal consciousness and representation (especially spatial representation); and the reducibility of phenomenal representation. Many of the contributors to \u003ci\u003eBlockheads!\u003c\/i\u003e are prominent philosophers themselves, including Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, and Hilary Putnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNed Block, Bill Brewer, Richard Brown, Tyler Burge, Marisa Carrasco, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson, Hakwan Lau, Geoffrey Lee, Janet Levin, Joseph Levine, William G. Lycan, Brian P. McLaughlin, Adam Pautz, Hilary Putnam, Sydney Shoemaker, Susanna Siegel, Nicholas Silins, Daniel Stoljar, Michael Tye, Sebastian Watzl\u003c\/p\u003eAdam Pautz is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNed Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University and was Chair of the Philosophy Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 1997).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTyler Burge is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam G. Lycan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilary Putnam was Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Tye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTen Problems of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eConsciousness, Color, and Content\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eConsciousness and Persons\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), all published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299930689765,"sku":"NP9780262038720","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262038720.jpg?v=1767722777","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/blockheads-isbn-9780262038720","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}