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Country United States Pages 432 Originally published 9 May 1996 Page count 432 Subject Philosophy of mind | 4/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 978-0195117899 Genre Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David chalmers the conscious mind excerpt a thinking allowed dvd w jeffrey mishlove
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory is a 1996 book by David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind.
Contents
Summary
Chalmers presents the major arguments against materialist theories of consciousness, and then advances his own dualistic theory of consciousness based on "Shannon information partitions".
Scholarly reception
The Conscious Mind has been reviewed in many journals including Foundations of Physics, Psychological Medicine, Mind, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, and Australian Review of Books.
References
The Conscious Mind Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA