The Character of Consciousness

Produktbeschreibung

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* Acknowledgments


* I: The Problems of Consciousness


* 1: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness


* Afterword: From "Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness"


* II: The Science of Consciousness


* 2: How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness?


* Afterword: First-Person Data and First-Person Science


* 3: What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness?


* 4: On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness


* III: The Metaphysics of Consciousness


* 5: Consciousness and its Place in Nature


* 6: The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism


* Afterword: Other Anti-Materialist Arguments


* 7: Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation (with Frank Jackson)


* IV: Concepts of Consciousness


* 8: The Content of Phenomenal Concepts


* 9: The Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief


* 10: Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap


* V: The Contents of Consciousness


* 11: The Representational Character of Experience


* Afterword: The Two-Dimensional Contents of Perception


* 12: Perception and the Fall From Eden


* 13: The Matrix as Metaphysics


* Afterword: Philosophical Notes


* VI: The Unity of Consciousness


* 14: What is the Unity of Consciousness (with Tim Bayne)


* Appendix: Two-Dimensional Semantics 

Autoreninfo

David J. Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is the author of THE CONSCIOUS MIND (OUP 1996), PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: Classic and Contemporary Readings (OUP 2002), and editor of the OUP series PHILOSOPHY OF MIND