Dialogues on Consciousness (Eris Dialogues) - Softcover

Riccardo Manzotti; Tim Parks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912475227 ISBN 13: 9781912475223

Publisher: Eris, 2020

Synopsis

Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to his friend that they condense their exchanges “into a series of focused dialogues to set out the standard positions on consciousness, and suggest some alternatives.” Fifteen of the resultant conversations were edited by Parks and published in The New York Review of Books online—one of its most popular features ever. Now collected into one slim but thought-provoking volume, the dialogues reveal the profound scholarship of the two men. Their talks touch upon Aristotle and William James, the Higgs boson and Descartes, and include topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Body and Us”, “The Reality of Dreams”, “The Object of Consciousness”, and finally “Consciousness: What Is It?”. For those of us searching for insight into some of life’s most basic puzzles— how do we think? how do we perceive one another, and ourselves?— Dialogues on Consciousness will take its place alongside other classics of philosophy.

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About the Author

Riccardo Manzotti is Professor of Philosophy at IULM University (Milan). He holds a PhD in robotics, and is the author of more than fifty scientific papers and several books. A former Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT, he is now visiting professor at UAEU University (Emirates). In 2017, the New York Review of Books posted an extended series of fifteen conversations between Manzotti and the novelist Tim Parks on the nature of consciousness in the physical world.

Tim Parks, novelist, essayist and translator, is the author of nineteen works of fiction, including Europa, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is a regular contributor to both the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in Italy, where he teaches literature and translation studies at IULM in Milan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eris
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912475227
• ISBN 13: 9781912475223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148