In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and argumentson the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind. INDICE: 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-DimensionalArgument 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-531111-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 624
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés