Books by Robert Kirk

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Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction examines the philosophical tradition surrounding the question of reality and relativism, the belief that reality somehow depends on what we think

The problem of consciousness is central to the perennial philosophical debate on the relation between mind and body; Robert Kirk offers a penetrating analysis of the problem, and suggests a new approach to solving it. He uses the notion of `raw feeling' to bridge the gap between our knowledge of ourselves as physical organisms and our knowledge of ourselves as subjects of experience.

A great deal of work in philosophy is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book offers an introduction to this problem. It discusses mechanism - the idea that minds are machines - focusing on Searle's Chinese Room argument.