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This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness,
functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the
significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body
problem¿a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. The papers on consciousness
treat such conceptual issues as phenomenal versus access consciousness, Dennett's
theory of consciousness, and the function of consciousness. Turning to the mind-body
problem, Block defends physicalism against Max Black's argument concerning phenomenal
modes of presentation. The papers on representationism consider "mental paint" as well
as the "Inverted Earth" thought experiment¿a world in which colors are reversed but
there is a compensating reversal in the words that are used to describe them.
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