David J. Chalmers (Assistant Pro Assistant Professor of Philosophy

The Conscious Mind

In Search of a Fundamental Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.

Produktdetails

• Philosophy of Mind
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780195117899
• ISBN-10: 0195117891
• Artikelnr.: 21772943

Autorenporträt

David J. Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Preliminaries
1: Two Concepts of Mind
2: Supervenience and Explanation
II. The Irreducibility of Consciousness
3: Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained?
4: Naturalistic Dualism
5: The Paradox of Phenomenal Judgment
III. Toward a Theory of Consciousness
6: The Coherence between Consciousness and Cognition
7: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia
8: Consciousness and Information: Some Speculation
IV. Applications
9: Strong Artificial Intelligence
10: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Notes
Bibliography