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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1 Consciousness and physicalism
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1.1 What is physicalism?
1.2 Evidence for physicalism
1.3 The barrier of consciousness
1.4 The burden of proof
1.5 Massaging the values
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Notes
2 Themes from Descartes
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2.1. Descartes and virtual reality
2.2 Representational mind
2.3 Inside the Cartesian Theatre
2.4 The generation problem
2.5 Philosophical dissolution?
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Notes
3 Identity theories and the generation problem
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3.1 Non-insane automatism
3.2 Connectionism
3.3 Sensory vector coding
3.4 Which vectors are conscious?
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4 HOT theory I: the mentalistic reduction of consciousness
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4.1 What is HOT theory?
4.2 Conscious states and subjects
4.3 HOT pathologies
4.4 Which HOTs confer consciousness?
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5 HOT theory II: animals, mental sophistication and dispositions
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5.1 HOT theory, introspection and concepts
5.2 Do animals attribute mental states?
5.3 Consequences for HOT theory
5.4 Tests for consciousness
5.5 The function of consciousness
5.6 Dispositional HOT theory
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6 Self-representational theories of consciousness
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6.1 An intermediate HOT-like approach
6.2 Transitivity
6.3 Wide instrinsicality and introspection
6.4 Conceptuality
6.5 Pure self-representationalism
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7 Dennett I: qualia eliminated
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7.1 An eliminativist strategy
7.2 The nature of qualia
7.3 Verificationist arguments
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8 Dennett II: consciousness fictionalized
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8.1 Instrumentalism
8.2 Cognitive pandemonium
8.3 Phenomenological judgements
8.4 Stalin vs. Orwell
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9 Consciousness and attention
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9.1 What is attention?
9.2 Experiments with attention
9.3 Attention = consciousness
9.4 AIR theory and the generation problem
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10 Representational theories of consciousness I
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10.1 Why representationalism?
10.2 Introspection and consciousness
10.3 Phenomenal concepts
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11 Representational theories of consciousness II
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11.1 Dretske on representation
11.2 The case of PTU
11.3 Tye on representation
11.4 Rogue consciousness and Swampman
11.5 Content and vehicle
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12 Conscious intentionality and the anti-Cartesian catastrophe
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12.1 Concepts and experience
12.2 Consciousness as
12.3 Externalism vs. internalism
12.4 Intrinsic intentionality
12.5 Narrow content
12.6 The path to fundamentality
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13 Consciousness, information and panpsychism
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13.1 Chalmers’ naturalistic dualism
13.2 Organizational invariance
13.3 Grades of information
13.4 Quantum mechanics and information
13.5 Panpsychism
13.6 Objections to panpsychism
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14 Panpsychism, aggregation and combinatorial infusion
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14.1 Deferential Monadic Panpsychism
14.2 Problems for DMP
14.3 Maximality and panpsychism
14.4 Panpsychism and emergence
14.5 Combinatorial infusion
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15 Monism and models
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15.1 Neutral monism
15.2 Newman’s problem
15.3 Anomalous and pattern monism
15.4 Metaphysical realism and neutral monism
15.5 Nonstandard models and consciousness
15.6 Some final words
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Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
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