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The Character of Consciousness
Author(s): David J. Chalmers (Author)
- Publisher: OUP USA
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 624 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195311108
- ISBN-13: 9780195311105
Book Description
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 theory in new directions. The book includes original accounts of how we think and know about consciousness, of the unity of consciousness, and of how consciousness relates to the external world. Along the way, Chalmers develops many provocative ideas: the “consciousness meter”, the Garden of Eden as a model of perceptual experience, and The Matrix as a guide to the deepest philosophical problems about consciousness and the external world. This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the problems of mind, brain, consciousness, and reality.
Editorial Reviews
Review
the papers collected here exemplify all the virtues that we have come to expect from Chalmerss work … Throughout, he is strikingly resourceful in articulating and defending his views. ― Stephan Leuenberger, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
About the Author
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
