The character of consciousness / David J. Chalmers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalmers, David John, 1966- author.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series.

Philosophy of mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 596 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the ""hard problem"" of consciousness, Chalmers builds a positive framework for the science of consciousness and a nonreductive vision of the metaphysics of consciousness. He replies to many critics of The Conscious Mind, and then develops a positive theor

Contents:

Facing up to the problem of consciousness

How can we construct a science of consciousness?

What is a neural correlate of consciousness?

On the search for the neural correlate of consciousness

Consciousness and its place in nature

The two-dimensional argument against materialism

Conceptual analysis and reductive explanation (with Frank Jackson)

The content of phenomenal concepts

The epistemology of phenomenal belief

Phenomenal concepts and the explanatory gap

The representational character of experience

Perception and the fall from Eden

The Matrix as metaphysics

What if the unity of consciousness? (with Tim Bayne).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-987085-3

0-19-982661-7

1-282-76833-6

9786612768330

0-19-971865-2

OCLC:

843198759