Resources on Consciousness for PHIL 6395

Websites
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
David Chalmers Bibliography on Philosophy of Mind

Books and Articles

Block, N. "Are Absent Qualia Possible?" Philosophical Review (1980) pp. 257-274

Chalmers, D. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2 (1995) pp. 200-219

Chalmers, D. The Conscious Mind (Has good bibliography)

Chalmers, D. "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience," Scientific American 273, (1995) pp. 80-86

Churchland, Paul Matter and Consciousness

Churchland, Paul The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul, Chs. 2, 8, 9

Churchland, Paul "The Rediscovery of Light" Journal of Philosophy, 1995

Churchland, Paul "Reduction Qualia and the Direct Introspection of Brain States," The Journal of Philosophy, 1985, pp. 9-28

Churchland, Patricia "Consciousness: The Transmutation of a Concept," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, (1983) pp. 80-95

Churchland, Patricia "Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?" Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, 1993 pp. 23-40

Churchlands, Paul and Patricia "Could a Machine Think?" (Jan. 1990) Scientific American pp. 32-37

Clarke, Austin Sensory Qualities

Crick, F. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

Crick, F. and Koch, C. "Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness," Seminars in in Neurosciences 2 (1990) pp. 263-275

Cytonic, R. "Tasting Colors, Smelling Sounds," The Sciences (Sept/Oct) 1988

Damasio, A. Descartes' Error

Davies, M. and Humphrey, G. (Eds.) Consciousness

Dennett, D. "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Consciousness," in Brainstorms

Dennett, D. "The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Dennett, D. Consciousness Explained

Dennett, D. and Kinsbourne, M. "Time and The Observer," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 1992 183-247.

Dennett, D. Kinds of Minds, Basic Books, 1995.

Dennett, D. "Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1, (1996) pp. 4-6.

Dretske, F. "What is Consciousness For?" ??? (read at A&M spring '96)

Flanagan, O. Consciousness Reconsidered

Fodor, J. "Making Mind Matter More," Philosophical Topics, (1989) pp. 59-79

Foss, J. "On the Logic of What it is Like to be a Conscious Subject," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67, pp. 205-220

Hardin, Color for Philosophers

Heil, J. and Mele, A. Mental Causation

Hofstadter, D. and Dennett, D. (Eds.) The Mind's I

Jackendoff, R. Consciousness and The Computational Mind

Jackson, F. "Epiphenomenal Qualia," Philosophical Quarterly, 32 (1982) 127-136

Jackson, F. "What Mary Didn't Know," in Rosenthal (Ed.)

Josephson, B and Ramachandran, V. (Eds.) Consciousness and the Physical World

Lepore, E. and Loewer, B. "Mind Matters," Journal of Philosophy, (1987) pp. 630-642

Lepore, E. and Loewer, B. "More on Making Mind Matter," Philosophical Topics, (1989) pp. 175-191

Lewis, D. "Mad Pain and Martian Pain,' in Rosenthal (Ed.)

Libet, B. "Unconscious Cerebral Initiative and the Role of Conscious Will in Voluntary Action," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 529-566.

Lloyd, D. Simple Minds, Chs. 7, 8

Lewis, D. "Mad Pain and Martian Pain," in Rosenthal (Ed.)

Lycan, W. Consciousness

Marcel, A. and Bisiach, E. (Eds.) Consciousness in Contemporary Science

McGinn, C. The Problem of Consciousness

McGinn, C. "Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?" Mind 98 (1989) pp. 349-366 also in McGinn

Metzinger Conscious Experience

Nagel, T. "What it is Like to be a Bat," in Rosenthal (Ed.) and Hofstadter and Dennett (Eds.)

Nagel, T. The View From Nowhere

Popper, K. and Eccles, J. The Self and its Brain

Rey, G. "A Reason for Doubting the Existence of Consciousness," in Davidson R. et. al. (Eds.) Consciousness and Self-Regulation

Rosenthal, D. (ed.) The Nature of Mind

Rosenthal, D. "Two Concepts of Consciousness," Philosophical Studies, 49 (1986) pp. 329-359

Shallice, T. From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure

Searle, J. The Rediscovery of Mind

Searle, J. "Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?" Scientific American (Jan. 1990) pp. 26-31

Shoemaker, S. "Functionalism and Qualia," Philosophical Studies, (1975) pp. 291- 315

Thomas, Nigel "Zombie Killer"

Tye, M. Ten Problems of Consciousness

Van Gulick, R. "Understanding the Phenomenal Mind: Are We All Just Armadillos?" in Davies and Humphrey, G. (Eds.)

Van Gulick, R. "Who's in Charge Here? And Who's Doing All the Work?" in Heil and Mele (Eds.)

Watkins, M. "The Knowledge Argument Against the Knowledge Argument," Analysis, (1989) pp. 158-160

Wider, K. "Overtones of Solipsism in Thomas Nagel's 'What is it Like to Be a Bat?' and the View From Nowhere," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50, (1989) pp. 481-499

Zuboff, A. "The Story of a Brain," in Hofstadter and Dennett (Eds.)