Explaining Consciousness The Hard Problem

Name: Explaining Consciousness The Hard Problem
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ISBN: 9780262692212

ISBN-10: 026269221X

ISBN-13: 9780262692212

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jonathan Shear

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In 1994, philosopher David Chalmers distinguished between the 'easy' problems and the 'hard' problem of consciousness research. Some contributors to this volume take issue with Chalmers's distinction, others offer alternative suggestions.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 430
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.96" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Introduction



Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness



Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness



The Hornswoggle Problem



Function and Phenomenology: Closing the Explanatory Gap



The Why of Consciousness: A Non-Issue for Materialists



There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness



Should We Expect to Feel as if We Understand Consciousness?



Consciousness and Space



Giving Up on the Hard Problem of Consciousness



There Are No Easy Problems of Consciousness



The Easy Problems Ain't So Easy



Facing Ourselves: Incorrigibility and the Mind-Body Problem



The Hardness of the Hard Problem



The Nonlocality of Mind



Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections



The Hard Problem: A Quantum Approach



Physics, Machines and the Hard Problem



Why Neuroscience May Be Able to Explain Consciousness



Understanding Subjectivity: Global Workspace Theory and the Resurrection of the Observing Self



The Elements of Consciousness and Their Neurodynamical Correlates



Consciousness, Information and Panpsychism



Rethinking Nature: A Hard Problem within the Hard Problem



Solutions to the Hard Problem of Consciousness



Turning 'the Hard Problem' Upside Down and Sideways



The Relation of Consciousness to the Material World



Neurophenomenology: A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem



The Hard Problem: Closing the Empirical Gap



Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness