Explaining consciousness the _hard problem_

✍ Scribed by Shear J. (ed.)

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction Jonathan Shear
The Hard Problem
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers
Deflationary Perspectives
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 Understand Consciousness? Mark C. Price
The Explanatory Gap
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
Physics
The Nonlocality of Mind C.J.S. Clarke
Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections Stuart R. Hameroffand Roger Penrose
The Hard Problem: A Quantum Approach Henry P. Stapp
Physics, Machines and the Hard Problem Douglas J. Bilodeau
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Why Neuroscience May Be Able to Explain Consciousness Francis Crick and ChristofKoch
Understanding Subjectivity: Global Workspace Theory and the Resurrection of the Observing Self Bernard J. Baars
The Elements of Consciousness and Their Neurodynamical Correlates Bruce MacLennan
Rethinking Nature
Consciousness, Information and Panpsychism William Seager
Rethinking Nature: A Hard Problem within the Hard Problem Gregg H Rosenberg
Solutions to the Hard Problem of Consciousness Benjamin Libet
Turning ‘the Hard Problem’ Upside Down and Sideways Piet Hut and Roger N. Shepard
First-Person Perspectives
The Relation of Consciousness to the Material World Max Velmans
Neurophenomenology: A Methodological Remedy for the Hard Problem Francisco J. Varela
The Hard Problem: Closing the Empirical Gap Jonathan Shear
Response
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers