Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Susan Schneider is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a faculty member in the technology and ethics group at Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her work is on the nature of the self and mind, which she examines through issues in philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence (A.I.), metaphysics, astrobiology, epistemology, and neuroscience. She is the author of The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction (2011) and Science Fiction and Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), and was responsible for the volume's philosophical content. Max Velmans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been involved in consciousness studies for over 40 years. He has over 100 publications on this topic including Understanding Consciousness (2000/2009) and Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (2017). He is a co-founder and former Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and was responsible for the volume's scientific content.

• Notes on Contributors xIntroduction xixPart I The Problems of Consciousness 11 A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness 3Chris D. Frith and Geraint Rees2 Philosophical Problems of Consciousness 17Michael Tye3 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 32David ChalmersPart II The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness 434 Consciousness in Infants 45Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy5 Animal Consciousness 63Colin Allen and Michael Trestman6 Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness 77Thomas W. Polger7 Machine Consciousness 93Igor Aleksander8 Panpsychism 106Philip Goff xPart III Some Varieties of Conscious Experience 1259 States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming 127J. Allan Hobson10 Affective Consciousness 141Jaak Panksepp11 Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences 157Richard P. Bentall12 Altered States of Consciousness: Drug‐Induced States 171David E. Presti13 Anomalous Experiences 187Etzel Cardeña14 Mindfulness 203Peter Malinowski15 Altered States: Mysticism 217David FontanaPart IV Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness 22716 The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Predictions and Results 229Bernard J. Baars17 The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Outline 243Giulio Tononi18 The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness 257Jesse Prinz19 Representationalism about Consciousness 272William Seager and David Bourget20 Higher‐Order Theories of Consciousness 288Peter Carruthers21 Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples 298Harald Atmanspacher22 Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness 314Susan Schneider23 Biological Naturalism 327John Searle24 Emergentism 337Gerald Vision25 Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism 349Max Velmans26 Naturalistic Dualism 363David Chalmers27 Physicalist Panpsychism 374Galen StrawsonPart V Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness 39128 Anti‐materialist Arguments and Influential Replies 393Joe Levine29 Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument 404Torin Alter30 Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness 415Brian P. Mclaughlin31 Functionalism and Qualia 430Robert Van Gulick32 The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness 445Jaegwon Kim33 The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness 458Pete Mandik34 Self‐Consciousness 472José Luis Bermúdez35 Philosophical Psychopathology and Self‐Consciousness 484G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham36 Coming Together: The Unity of Consciousness 500Barry Dainton37 Consciousness and Intentionality 519George Graham, Terence Horgan, and John TiensonPart VI Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness 537Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness38 Studying Consciousness Through Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, and the AttentionalBlink 539Michael A. Cohen and Marvin M. Chun39 Conscious and Unconscious Perception 551Sid Kouider and Nathan Faivre40 Conscious and Unconscious Memory 562John F. Kihlstrom, Jennifer Dorfman, and Lillian Park41 Consciousness of Action 576Marc JeannerodTopics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness 58942 Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness 591Geraint Rees and Chris D. Frith43 Conscious Processing: Unity in Time Rather Than in Space 607Wolf Singer44 Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Some Ontological Considerations 621Giulio Tononi45 Split‐brain Cases 634Mary (Molly) Colvin, Nicole L. Marinsek, Michael B. Miller, and Michael S. Gazzaniga46 Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action 648Melvyn A. Goodale47 Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury 662Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, and Olivia Gosseries48 Anesthesia and Consciousness 682John F. Kihlstrom and Randall C. Cork49 The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition 695Aaron SchurgerFirst-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 71150 Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness 713Shaun Gallagher51 Neurophenomenology and the Micro‐phenomenological Interview 726Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin52 Descriptive Experience Sampling 740Russell T. Hurlburt53 Experiential Neuroscience of Pain 754Donald D. Price54 An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness 769Max VelmansResources for Students 785Index 788