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==="Straw man"=== Much of the criticism asserts that Dennett's theory attacks the wrong target, failing to explain what it claims to. Chalmers (1996) maintains that Dennett has produced no more than a theory of how subjects report events.<ref name="chalmers">{{cite book |author=Chalmers, David |title=The Conscious Mind |year=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press.}}</ref> Some even parody the title of the book as "Consciousness Explained Away", accusing him of [[greedy reductionism]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | author=DrMatt | date=7 December 2004 | chapter-url=https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A3005001 |chapter=Some Modern Theories of Consciousness | title=[[h2g2]]}}</ref> Another line of criticism disputes the accuracy of Dennett's characterisations of existing theories: {{quote|The now standard response to Dennett's project is that he has picked a fight with a [[straw man]]. Cartesian materialism, it is alleged, is an impossibly naive account of phenomenal consciousness held by no one currently working in cognitive science or the philosophy of mind. Consequently, whatever the effectiveness of Dennett's demolition job, it is fundamentally misdirected (see, e.g., Block, 1993, 1995; Shoemaker, 1993; and Tye, 1993).<ref name="bando">{{cite journal |author1=O'Brien, G. |author2=Opie, J. |name-list-style=amp |title=A defense of Cartesian Materialism |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages= 939β63 |doi=10.2307/2653563|jstor=2653563 |year=1999 }}</ref>}}
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