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Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness
Also known as: Facing up to the hard question of consciousness
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 6 facts
claimDavid Chalmers identifies the deepest problem of consciousness as the construction of an explanatory theory that accommodates consciousness within the natural world.
referenceDennett, D.C. (1996) authored 'Facing backwards on the problem of consciousness', published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies 3:4-6.
referenceC. McGinn authored the paper 'Can we solve the mind-body problem?', which was published in Mind, Volume 98, pages 349-366, in 1989, and later reprinted in 'The Problem of Consciousness' (Blackwell, 1991).
claimDavid Chalmers' paper 'Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness' is designed to be understood independently of the commentaries it addresses, while providing a detailed elaboration and extension of ideas from his original paper, 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness'.
claimPrice suggests a 'deflationary' view of the problem of consciousness, proposing that much of the difficulty lies in our own heads and that we should not expect to feel as if we understand consciousness.
accountThe symposium on David Chalmers' paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' included 26 commentaries from various scholars, including Bernard Baars, Douglas Bilodeau, Patricia Churchland, Tom Clark, C.J.S. Clarke, Francis Crick, Christof Koch, Daniel Dennett, Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, Valerie Hardcastle, David Hodgson, Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Benjamin Libet, E.J. Lowe, Bruce MacLennan, Colin McGinn, Eugene Mills, Kieron O'Hara, Tom Scutt, Mark Price, William Robinson, Gregg Rosenberg, William Seager, Jonathan Shear, Henry Stapp, Francisco Varela, Max Velmans, and Richard Warner.
The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu Sep 2, 2025 3 facts
claimThe Christian faith faces a challenge in accounting for the problem of consciousness, specifically regarding the continued life of a person after bodily death.
claimThe problem of consciousness is defined as the metaphysical challenge of accounting for the fact that human beings possess subjective experience.
claimPhysicalists typically address the problem of consciousness by labeling experience as an illusion, reducing experience to physical phenomena like brain activity, or arguing that non-physical phenomena depend on physical entities.
David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness philpapers.org 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers provides an account of why the 'hard part' of the problem of consciousness is difficult in his paper 'Facing up to the problem of consciousness'.
claimIn the paper 'Facing up to the problem of consciousness', David Chalmers isolates the 'hard part' of the problem of consciousness by separating it from the more tractable parts of the problem.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referenceDaniel Stoljar authored the book 'Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness', published by Oxford University Press.
referenceBrian Cooney edited a reprint of David Chalmers' paper 'Facing up to the problem of consciousness' in the book 'The place of mind' (1999).
Facing up to the hard question of consciousness - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Jul 30, 2018 1 fact
perspectiveThe author of the article 'Facing up to the hard question of consciousness' characterizes the 'hard problem of consciousness' as a 'chimera' and a 'distraction' from the 'hard question of consciousness'.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimBertrand Russell attempted to solve the problem of substance, which is a form of the problem of infinite regress, alongside the problem of consciousness.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimThe problem of consciousness has been a subject of philosophical concern for approximately 2500 years.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
referenceDennett D C published 'Facing up to the hard question of consciousness' in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 2018.
David Chalmers - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers formulated the 'hard problem of consciousness' in his 1995 paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' and his 1996 book 'The Conscious Mind'.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimThe problem of consciousness is considered the central issue in current theorizing about the mind.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers argues that the problem of consciousness persists even after all relevant functions of a system are explained.
(DOC) The hard problem of consciousness & the phenomenological ... academia.edu 1 fact
perspectiveThe 'problem of consciousness' is based on a misinterpretation of the structure of experience that abstracts a subjective perspective (A) from the shared world (B) and attempts to insert that abstraction into a scientifically described world (C), even though C presupposes B.
Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 1 fact
referenceChalmers, D. (1995) published 'Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness' in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2 (3), pp. 200-219.
[PDF] Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness - Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers asserts that confronting the problem of consciousness directly is a necessary step to make progress on understanding it.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceColin McGinn authored 'The Problem of Consciousness', published in 1991 by Blackwell.
David J. Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness philpapers.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers states that his paper, 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness', isolates the 'truly hard part' of the problem of consciousness.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimThe problem of consciousness was a concern for philosophers 2500 years ago, in a form similar to contemporary philosophical worries.