creators_name: Dennett, Daniel C
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-05-03
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:47
metadata_visibility: show
title: Commentary on Chalmers "Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness".
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
abstract: The strategy of divide and conquer is usually an excellent one, but it all depends on how you do the carving. Chalmer's attempt to sort the "easy" problems of consciousness from the "really hard" problem is not, I think, a useful contribution to research, but a major misdirector of attention, an illusion-generator. How could this be? Let me describe two somewhat similar strategic proposals, and compare them to Chalmers' recommendation.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Consciousness Studies
volume: 3 (Spe
number: 1
pagerange: 4-6
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Dennett, Daniel C  (1996) Commentary on Chalmers "Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness".  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/290/1/chalmers.htm