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 …

stood in terms of ground. 1 Against this, Ted Sider has argued that ground is ill-suited for this
purpose. 2 Here I develop Sider's objection and offer a response. In doing so I develop a …

The relation between subjective consciousness and the physical brain is widely regarded as
the last mystery facing science. This book argues that there is no real puzzle here …

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 …

Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation Page 1 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110,
No. 3 (July 2001) Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation David J. Chalmers and Frank …

What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could
there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can …

Phenomenal concepts are common coin among nearly all contemporary philosophers
working on consciousness. They are recognized both by ontological dualists, who take them …

markable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is
just as unaccountable as the appearance of Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp"(ibid., p …

Matters of Mind examines the mind-body problem. It offers a chapter by chapter analysis of
debates surrounding the problem, including visual experience, consciousness and the …

This dissertation argues for a" bundle thesis" of phenomenal consciousness: that the ways
things seem to subjects are constituted by bundles of representational and functional …