"Marvelously comprehensive and superbly written. An exceptionally valuable overview of the 1960s, replete with astute interpretations and commentary." —David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangem...

While building a secluded retirement home in rugged, dry sclerophyll, natural woodland in central Victoria, David Chalmers began glimpsing fragments of strange stories written in the landscape. Stone walls and mysterious caves revealing evidence of long past human habitation, animal tracks through nearly virgin woodland and forest linking with wild animal behaviour, and other natural mysteries began pushing David to yet another calling and to new destinations. Those pathways were to become...

Vi kan ännu inte ta på en virtuell yta, smaka på en virtuell dryck eller känna en virtuell doft. Men enligt filosofen David Chalmers utvecklas tekniken så fort att det inom ett århundrade knappt kommer att vara möjligt att skilja mellan det virtuella och det verkliga.Vad är egentligen verkligt? Kan det finnas medvetande i en digital värld? Kan vi undgå att luras av deepfakes? Leder förstärkt verklighet till alternativa fakta? Är det möjligt att leva ett gott liv i en virtu...

David Chalmers und das harte Problem des BewusstseinsKaum ein Philosoph hat die moderne Debatte über den Geist so geprägt wie David Chalmers. Mit seiner berühmten Unterscheidung zwischen dem "einfachen" und dem harten Problem des Bewusstseins hat er die Philosophie des Geistes auf eine neue Ebene gehoben. Während sich Neurowissenschaften und Psychologie mit den "einfachen Problemen" beschäftigen – etwa wie das Gehirn Informationen ...

Der dritte Band des Jahrbuch für klinische und interdisziplinäre Psychoanalyse nähert sich unter dem Titel »Kunst und Künstlichkeit« zwei Begrifflichkeiten, die beide Kulturleistungen des Menschen bezeichnen und damit auf Verzicht sowie Aneignung, Anerkennung sowie Beherrschung, Gestaltung und Symbolisierung von Natur, Natürlichem und materiell Gesellschaftlichem setzen. Das Konzept Künstlichkeit erfährt nun insbesondere durch den Diskurs um die Künstliche Intelligenz einen immensen und ne...

**One of the Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.**Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and th...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Roger Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the conscious...

Fromthe bestselling author of Waking Up and TheEnd of Faith**, a collection of the best conversationsfrom his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.**“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —SamHarrisSamHarris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring...

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version of the project can succeed. With the right basic elements and the right derivation relation, we can indeed construct the world. The focal point of Chalmers' project is scrutability: the the...

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness, Chalmers builds a positive framework for the science of consciousness and a nonreductive vision of the metaphysic...

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of 'technophilosophy', Chalmers argues ca...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and wehave seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Roger Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the con...