Work of David Chalmers

This is the ground-breaking book by David Chalmers. His main argument is that the reductionist explanation of consciousness is impossible. The reading is accessible to both philosophers and non-philosophers. The book developed out of his famous paper "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." He directly addresses the hard problem of phenomenology which has always been ignored by almost all of the preceding philosophers. While analyzing different theories of consciousness he has also presented his own candidate for such a theory of consciousness that could explain this intractable problem. He proposes that there could be fundamental laws relating to consciousness just as there are fundamental laws in Physics. He also explores the possibility of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike other writes Chalmers does not "solve" the problem of consciousness by redefining it as another problem. A remarkable point about Charmers' book is that he convincingly presents his arguments that a "pure" materialist view about consciousness will not suffice and "dual-aspects" of information will have to be taken into view.

---- Review by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

	Papers On Consciousness
Papers on Consciousness	Consciousness and Cognition Consciousness and its Place in Nature Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
The Science of Consciousness	First-Person Methods in the Science of Consciousness On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness?
Commentaries and Reviews	Availability: The Cognitive Basis of Experience? Insentience, Indexicality, and Intensions Review of Journal of Consciousness Studies Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study
Miscellaneous	Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia What is the Unity of Consciousness?

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Rene Descartes

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