Explaining consciousness

Explaining consciousness: the "hard problem"

by Shear, J., (Jonathan)

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At the 1994 landmark conference "Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness," philosopher David Chalmers distinguished between the "easy" problems and the "hard" problem of consciousness research. According to Chalmers, the easy problems are to explain cognitive functions such as discrimination, integration, and the control of behavior; the hard problem is to explain why these functions should be associated with phenomenal experience. Why doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dar…

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  • Full title :Explaining consciousness : the "hard problem" / edited by Jonathan Shear.

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At the 1994 landmark conference "Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness," philosopher David Chalmers distinguished between the "easy" problems and the "hard" problem of consciousness research. According to Chalmers, the easy problems are to explain cognitive functions such as discrimination, integration, and the control of behavior; the hard problem is to explain why these functions should be associated with phenomenal experience. Why doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dark," without any consciousness at all? In this book, philosophers, physicists, psychologists, neurophysiologists, computer scientists, and others - all the major participants in the debate - address this central topic in the growing discipline of consciousness studies.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1997.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©1997.

Notes

"A Bradford book."

The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 422 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0262193884, 9780262193887, 9780262692212, 026269221X
  • oclc:ocm36582008
  • LC Classification:B808.9
  • Dewey Decimal:126

Table of Contents

Facing up to the problem of consciousness / David J. Chalmers -- Facing backwards on the problem of consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett -- The Hornswoggle problem / Patricia Smith Churchland -- Function and phenomenology : closing the explanatory gap / Thomas W. Clark -- The why of consciousness : a non-issue for materialists / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- There is no hard problem of consciousness / Kieron O'Hara and Tom Scutt -- Should we expect to feel as if we understood consciousness? / Mark C. Price -- Consciousness and space / Colin McGinn -- Giving up on the hard problem of consciousness / Eugene O. Mills -- There are no easy problems of consciousness / E.J. Lowe -- The easy problems ain't so easy / David Hodgson -- Facing ourselves : incorrigibility and the mind-body problem / Richard Warner -- The hardness of the hard problem / William S. Robinson -- The nonlocality of mind / C.J.S. Clarke -- Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections / Stuart R. Hameroff and Roger Penrose -- The hard problem : a quantum approach / Henry P. Stapp -- Physics, machines and the hard problem / Douglas J. Bilodeau -- Why neuroscience may be able to explain consciousness / Francis Crick…

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08.36 philosophical anthropology, philo… 77.11 psychology of consciousness Aufsatzsammlung Bewusstsein Bewustzijn Conscience consciousness

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Shear, J., (Jonathan)

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