Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness

• Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. Qualitative event realism; 3. Dualism; 4. Representationalism; 5. Transparency; 6. Higher order theories; 7. Monitoring; 8. Functionalism; 9. Scepticism and the causes of qualitative events; 10. Epiphenomenalism; Part II: 11. Unified dualism; 12. Patterns as causes of qualitative events; 13. A possible future.

Review of the hardback: 'Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness is an out-and-out defense of dualism … against standard objections and against currently competing materialist theories of the qualitative character of experience. The view Robinson defends is provocative and should be widely discussed. The book is methodologically sophisticated and crammed with argument.' William Lycan, University of North Carolina