Am 16.03.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Bruno Marchal:
On 15 Mar 2015, at 20:37, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1523413.ece
An interesting paper that reviews the history on consciousness in
philosophy in order to display that
"Twenty years ago, however, an instant myth was born: a myth about
a dramatic resurgence of interest in the topic of consciousness in
philosophy, in the mid-1990s, after long neglect."
I am not sure that it was a myth. I have wittnessed it, as the
subject of consciousness was an ultra-taboo subject, even for most
psychologist. Scientist were, more or less consciously, influence by
positivisme. There are just been an understanding that positivism and
instrumentalistm where incoherent.
If to speak about psychology or neuroscience, then you are write. But
this is a myth when we speak about philosophy. A quote is below.
"In the case of psychology the story of resurgence has some truth. There
are doubts about its timing. The distinguished psychologist of memory
Endel Tulving places it in the 1980s. “Consciousness has recently again
been declared to be the central problem of psychology”, he wrote in
1985, citing a number of other authors. The great dam of behaviouristic
psychology was cracking and spouting. It was bursting. Even so, there
was a further wave of liberation in psychology in the 1990s. Discussion
of consciousness regained full respectability after seventy years of
marginalization, although there were of course (and still are) a few
holdouts.
In the case of philosophy, however, the story of resurgence is simply a
myth. There was a small but fashionable group of philosophers of mind
who in the 1970s and 80s focused particularly on questions about belief
and “intentionality”, and had relatively little to say about
consciousness. Their intensely parochial outlook may be one of the
origins of the myth. But the problem of consciousness, the “hard
problem”, remained central throughout those years. It never shifted from
the heart of the discipline taken as a whole."
Evgeny
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