261008 David Chalmers: "The Conscious Mind" (GradS) (SoSe 2011)

David Lewis sagt über dieses Buch: „The Conscious Mind is exceptionally ambitious and exceptionally successful – the best book in philosophy of mind for many years. It flies in the face of fashion, making a formidable case against materialist orthodoxy. Legions of materialists are no doubt busy writing their rejoinders; but there will be few points left for them to make that Chalmers hasn’t made already. We of the materialist opposition cannot go on about how he has overlooked this and misunderstood that – because he hasn’t. All we can do is to disagree about which way the balance of considerations tilts“.

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Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

Vorkenntnisse in der Philosophie des Geistes sind unabdingbar.