Consciousness in the Physical World

Torin Alter is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Alabama, USA. He is author of articles in Mind, Philosophical Studies, and elsewhere; co-author of A Dialogue on Consciousness and The God Dialogues: A Philosophical Journey (both OUP); and co-editor of Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem: A Reader and Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism (both OUP). Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (CUP) and co-editor of There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument (MIT Press).

Contents ; Editors' Introduction ; Torin Alter and Yujin Nagasawa ; Part I: Precursors ; Chapter 1: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, excerpt from Monadology and letter to DeVolder ; Chapter 2: Immanuel Kant, excerpt from Critique of Pure Reason ; Chapter 3: William James, excerpt from The Principles of Psychology ; Chapter 4: Bertrand Russell, excerpts from Analysis of Matter (1927), Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), Portraits from Memory (1956), and My Philosophical Development (1959). ; Chapter 5: Leopold Stubenberg, "Russell, Russellian Monism, and Panpsychism" ; Chapter 6: Donovan Wishon, "Russell on Russellian Monism" ; Part III: Modern Classics and Recent Works ; Chapter 7: Grover Maxwell, "Rigid Designators and Mind-Brain Identity" (excerpt) ; Chapter 8: Michael Lockwood, "The Grain Problem" ; Chapter 9: Galen Strawson, "Real Materialism" (revised version, with postscript) ; Chapter 10: Barbara Gail Montero, "Russellian Physicalism" ; Chapter 11: Gregg Rosenberg, "Causality and the Combination Problem" ; Chapter 12: David J. Chalmers, "Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism" ; Chapter 13: Torin Alter and Robert J. Howell, "The Short Slide from A Posteriori Physicalism to Russellian Monism" ; Chapter 14: Derk Pereboom, "Consciousness, Physicalism, and Absolutely Intrinsic Properties" ; Chapter 15: Daniel Stoljar, "Russellian Monism or Nagelian Monism?" ; Chapter 16: Alyssa Ney, "A Physicalist Critique of Russellian Monism" ; Chapter 17: Philip Goff, "Against Constitutive Russellian Monism" ; Chapter 18: Amy Kind, "Pessimism about Russellian Monism" ; Chapter 19: Torin Alter and Yujin Nagasawa, "What is Russellian Monism?"