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Author Chalmers, David John, 1966-

Title The character of consciousness / David J. Chalmers.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  126 C353c 2010    ---  Available
Description xxvii, 596 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-585) and index.
Contents Facing up to the problem of consciousness -- How can we construct a science of consciousness? -- What is a neural correlate of consciousness? -- On the search for the neural correlate of consciousness -- Consciousness and its place in nature -- The two-dimensional argument against materialism -- Conceptual analysis and reductive explanation (with Frank Jackson) -- The content of phenomenal concepts -- The epistemology of phenomenal belief -- Phenomenal concepts and the explanatory gap -- The representational character of experience --Perception and the fall from Eden -- The Matrix as metaphysics -- What if the unity of consciousness? (with Tim Bayne).
Subject Consciousness.
ISBN 9780195311112 (pbk.)
0195311116 (pbk.)
9780195311105 (hbk.)
0195311108 (hbk.)
Standard No. 40018507402

 
    
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