The book is very well argued, thorough, sophisticated, honest, stimulating... It is certainly one of the best discussions of consciousness in existence, both as an advanced text and as an introduction to the issues.
David J. Chalmers is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and a McDonnell Fellow at Washington University. His article `The Puzzle of Conscious Experience' appeared in the December 1995 issue of Scientific American.