British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (2):419-423 (2014)
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David Chalmers burst onto the philosophical scene in the mid-1990s with his
work on consciousness, which awakened slumbering zombie arguments
against physicalism and transformed the explanatory gap into the hard problem
of consciousness. The distinction between hard and easy problems of
consciousness became a central dogma of the movement. Chalmers’ influence
in philosophy and consciousness studies is unquestionable.
But enthusiasts of Chalmers’ work on consciousness may be excused for not
fully appreciating his own justification for drawing the hard/easy distinction,
or even exactly which distinction he is drawing. Consequently, it is not clear
that the ‘Chalmers’ hard problem’ that has been widely influential is
Chalmers’ ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. Chalmers’ ‘hard problem’ rests
on, among other things: a methodological view about how philosophy—metaphysics,
especially—ought to be conducted; a view about the requirements for
explanation and reduction in philosophy and in the sciences; and a theory of
the semantics of concepts.1 Although Chalmers writes that the present book is
not intended as a foundation for his
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Keywords | Chalmers Metaphysics Structure Grounding Physicalism Carnap |
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DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axt028 |
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.David J. Chalmers - 1996 - Oxford University Press.
Thinking About Mechanisms.Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden & Carl F. Craver - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (1):1-25.
Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation.David J. Chalmers & Frank Jackson - 2001 - Philosophical Review 110 (3):315-61.
Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap.Ned Block & Robert Stalnaker - 1999 - Philosophical Review 108 (1):1-46.
Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap.Ned Block & Robert Stalnaker - 1999 - Philosophical Review 108 (1):1-46.
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