Ebook: The Character of Consciousness

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind.;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)