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At The 1994 Landmark Conference Toward A Scientific Basis For Consciousness, Philosopher David Chalmers Distinguished Between The Easy Problems And The Hard Problem Of Consciousness Research. According To Chalmers, The Easy Problems Are To Explain Cognitive Functions Such As Discrimination, Integration, And The Control Of Behavior; The Hard Problem Is To Explain Why These Functions Should Be Associated With Phenomenal Experience. Why Doesn't All This Cognitive Processing Go On In The Dark, Without Any Consciousness At All? In This Book, Philosophers, Physicists, Psychologists, Neurophysiologists, Computer Scientists, And Others - All The Major Participants In The Debate - Address This Central Topic In The Growing Discipline Of Consciousness Studies. Facing Up To The Problem Of Consciousness / David J. Chalmers -- 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

Who reads *Explaining consciousness : the "hard problem"?

Author

Jonathan Shear

Publisher

MIT Press; A Bradford Book

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262692212

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Reference, Fiction, Psychology

Rating

3.48 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14