The nature of consciousness : philosophical debates

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Part 1 Stream of consciousness: the stream of consciousness, William James the Cartesian theatre and filling the stream of consciousness, Daniel C. Dennett the robust phenomenology of the stream of consciousness, Owen Flanagan. Part 2 Consciousness, science and methodology: prospects for a unified theory of consciousness or, what dreams are made of, Owen Flanagan consciousness, folk psychology and cognitive science, Alvin I. Goldman can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?, Patricia Smith Churchland time and the observer -the where and when of consciousness in the brain, Daniel C. Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne begging the question against phenomenal consciousness, Ned Block time for more alternatives, Robert Van Gulick. Part 3 The psychology and neuropsychology of consciousness: contrastive phenomenology - a thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness, Bernard J. Baars visual perception and visual awareness after brain damage - a tutorial overview, Martha J. Farah understanding consciousness - clues from unilateral neglect and related disorders, Edoardo Bisiach modularity and consciousness, Tim Shallice towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness, Francis Crick and Christof Koch. Part 4 Consciousness and content: consciousness and content, Colin McGinn externalism and experience, Martin Davies a representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character, Michael Tye sensation and the content of experience - a distinction, Christopher Peacocke. Part 5 Function of consciousness: conscious inessentialism and the epiphenomenalist suspicion, Owen Flanagan on a confusion about a function of consciousness, Ned Block the path not taken, Daniel C. Dennett availability - the cognitive basis of experience?, David J. Chalmers fallacies or analyses?, Jennifer Church two kinds of consciousness, Tyler Burge understanding the phenomenal mind - are we all just armadillos?, part 2 - the absent qualia argument, Robert Van Gulick. Part 6 Metaphysics of consciousness: the identity thesis, Saul A. Kripke reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness, John R. Searle a question about consciousness, Georges Rey finding the mind in the neural world, Frank Jackson breaking the hold - silicon brains, conscious robots and other minds, John R. Searle the first-person perspective, Sydney Shoemaker. Part 7 Subjectivity and explanatory gap: what is it like to be a bat?, Thomas Nagel can we solve the mind-body problem?, Colin McGinn on leaving out what it's like, Joseph Levine. Part 8 The knowledge argument: understanding the phenomenal mind - are we all just armadillos?, part 1 - phenomenal knowledge and explanatory gaps, Robert Van Gulick what Mary didn't know, Frank Jackson knowing qualia - a reply to Jackson, Paul M. Churchland what experience teaches, David Lewis phenomenal states, Brian Loar. Part 9 Qualia: quining qualia, Daniel C. Dennett the inverted spectrum, Sydney Shoemkaer the intrinsic qualit

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