{"product_id":"9780191533129","title":"Consciousness and its Objects","description":"Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished.  He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable.  He also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions. McGinn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionality.  He argues that traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existent objects. These are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideas.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077808406768,"sku":"9780191533129","price":87.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780191533129_p0.jpg?v=1763661515","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780191533129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}