To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we have to confront it directly. In this
paper, I first isolate the truly hard part of the problem, separating it from more tractable parts …

This chapter gives an overview of the projects facing a science of consciousness. Such a
science must integrate third‐person data about behavior and brain processes with first‐person …

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited
class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in …

Consciousness fits uneasily into our conception of the natural world. On the most common
conception of nature, the natural world is the physical world. But on the most common …

This is a portion of the eBook at doi: 10.7551/mitpress/7111.001. 0001 an ontological
question. The first, fourth, and fifth are versions of general questions that philosophers have …

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What are the philosophical views of contemporary professional philosophers? We surveyed
many professional philosophers in order to help determine their views on 30 central …

… Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalmers offers a cogent analysis of this
… Chalmers convincingly reveals how contemporary cognitive science and neurobiology have …

High-level perception—the process of making sense of complex data at an abstract,
conceptual level—is fundamental to human cognition. Through high-level perception, chaotic …

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