Would We Give Up Naturalism to Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?

Boldly putting aside Darwin's"horrid doubt" about the naturalist view of the mind, researchers decided toembrace naturalism. That meant, of course, addressing what philosopher David Chalmers has called"the hard problem" of consciousness.

Decades later, they have not discovered anything that reduces basic, overlapping concepts such as consciousness, the mind, the self, or free will to naturalistic explanations. There are those, like philosopher Alex Rosenberg, who simply assert such explanatio...