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
David J. Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at Australian National University and New York University. He is the author of The Conscious Mind, Philosophy of Mind: Classic and Contemporary Readings, and editor of the OUP series Philosophy of Mind.
"For all that Chalmers offers us his magnificent, mammoth and
challenging tour de force, there are many conservative strands in
his thought that warrant serious challenge. The first step is to
get to know his arguments in detail -- and there is no better place
to start than with this book."--Daniel D. Hutto, Philosophy
"This huge collection is very well written and well organized.
Readers can start their intellectual journey from virtually any
chapter, and try to broaden their intellectual journey by reading
related chapters. The technicality is limited so that it does not
thwart understanding in general. It is written for both
professional philosophers and serious lay people."
--Metapsychology
"This valuable book brings together the important work that David
Chalmers has done on the topic of consciousness since the
publication of his seminal The Conscious Mind in 1996. It includes
an expanded treatment of his semantic two-dimensionalism and his
argument against physicalism, along with a number of insightful
discussion of conscious experience that are independent of these.
No one interested in these topics should be without this book."
--Sydney
Shoemaker, Cornell University
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