The Extended Mind
- A. Clark, D. Chalmers
- PhilosophyAnalysis
- 1 January 1998
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the intuitive demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is…
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy
- 1995
To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we have to confront it directly. In this paper, I first isolate the truly hard part of the problem, separating it from more tractable parts and…
The conscious mind: in search of a fundamental theory
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 1 June 1996
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…
The Representational Character of Experience
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 2004
Consciousness and intentionality are perhaps the two central phenomena in the philosophy of mind. Human beings are conscious beings: there is something it is like to be us. Human beings are…
The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy
- 2003
Experiences and beliefs are different sorts of mental states, and are often taken to belong to very different domains. Experiences are paradigmatically phenomenal, characterized by what it is like to…
Conceptual analysis and reductive explanation
- D. Chalmers, F. Jackson
- Philosophy
- 1 July 2001
Is conceptual analysis required for reductive explanation? If there is no a priori entailment from microphysical truths to phenomenal truths, does reductive explanation of the phenomenal fail? We say…
Constructing the World
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy
- 4 October 2012
This book discusses scrutability and the Aufbau, the structure of the world Glossary of the World Glossary, and the case for and against a Priori Scrutable.
Consciousness and its Place in Nature
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy
- 13 December 2007
Consciousness fits uneasily into our conception of the natural world. On the most common conception of nature, the natural world is the physical world. But on the most common conception of…
What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness
- D. Chalmers
- Biology
- 2000
The search for neural correlates of consciousness (or NCCs) is arguably the cornerstone in the recent resurgence of the science of consciousness, and some ingenious studies in recent years have led to considerable progress.
The Singularity: a Philosophical Analysis
- D. Chalmers
- Philosophy
- 2010
What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines…
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