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Pretty wild to me that David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind isn't included on this list.


Keith Frankish sides with Daniel Dennett on the subject of phenomenal consciousness, so it isn't that surprising.


On the contrary readers are dodging a massive bullet there imho.

Edit: the author has responded to this:

https://twitter.com/keithfrankish/status/973699230643707905

> I've been asked why Chalmers's The Conscious Mind wasn't one of my Five Books on Phil Mind The answer is that I limited myself to one consciousness book & for me that had to be CE. But I admire TCM & it would have been one of my Five Books on Consciousness


Similarly, I’d put Nagel’s “What It’s like to be a Bat” as required reading in that group as well.


^ Agree. This is a great paper.




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