Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' and 'Sets, Aggregates and Numbers'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


1 idea

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness
There is consciousness whenever behaviour must be explained in terms of mental activity [Scruton]
     Full Idea: There is consciousness whenever behaviour must be explained in terms of mental activity.
     From: Roger Scruton (Animal Rights and Wrongs [1996], p.23)
     A reaction: Not a point that would trouble an eliminativist, as it sounds suspiciously circular or question-begging.