The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness

Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Preface
List of Contributors

Introduction: Philosophy of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette

Part I: Historical Development
2. The Hard Problem of Understanding Descartes on Consciousness — Katherine Morris
3. Brentano’s Aristotelian Concept of Consciousness — Liliana Albertazzi
4. Wittgenstein and the Concept of Consciousness — Garry L. Hagberg
5. ‘Ordinary’ Consciousness — Julia Tanney

Part II: Groundbreaking Concepts of Consciousness
6. Consciousness, Representation and the Hard Problem — Keith Lehrer
7. The Knowledge Argument and Two Interpretations of ‘Knowing What it’s Like’ — Daniel Stoljar
8. Conscious and Unconscious Mental States — Richard Fumerton
9. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness — Rocco Gennaro
10. Kripke on Mind-Body Identity — Scott Soames

Part III: Metaphilosophy of Consciousness Studies
11. Understanding Consciousness by Building It — Michael Graziano and Taylor W. Webb
12. The Illusion of Conscious Thought — Peter Caruthers
13. Actualism About Consciousness Reaffirmed — Ted Honderich
14. Cracking the Hard Problem of Consciousness — Dale Jacquette

Part IV: Mental Causation, Natural Law, and Intentionality of Conscious States
15. Towards Axiomatizing Consciousness — Selmer Bringsjord and Paul Bello
16. Intentionality and Consciousness — Carlo Ierna
17. Cognitive Approaches to Phenomenal Consciousness — Peter Mandik
18. Free Will and Consciousness — Alfred Mele
19. Notes Toward a Metaphysics of Mind — Joseph Margolis

Part V: Resources

20. Annotated Bibliography
21. Research Resources
22. A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts