Consciousness Ne Philosophical Perspectives [Paperback]

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. Here, eighteen essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness.

Intentionality and Phenomenal Content
1. Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism?,Michael Tye
2. The Intentional Structure of Consciousness,Tim Crane
3. Experience and Representation,Joseph Levine
4. Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia,Brian Loar
5. Color, Consciousness, and Color Consciousness,Brian P. McLaughlin
Knowing Mental States
6. How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness,Shaul Nichols and Stephen Stich
7. Knowing Mental States: The Asymmetry of Psychological Prediction and Explanation,Kristin Andrews
8. The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief,David Chalmers
9. Privileged Access,Ernest Sosa
10.Consciousness and the BrainConsciousness and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds,James Fetzer
11. Maps, Gaps, and Traps,Robert Van Gulick
12. Theories of Consciousness,David Papineau
13. Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument,William Lycan
14. McGinn on Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem,Anthony Brueckner and E. Beroukhim
Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
15. Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics,Quentin Smith
16. Consciousness and the Quantum World: Putting Qualia on the Map,Michael Lockwood
17. Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness,Don Pagel£J