Philosophy Seminar:
The Nature of Consciousness
Fall 1998
Professor: JeeLoo Liu
Department of Philosophy
State University of New York at Geneseo
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The following handouts are for student use only. No quotation is permitted. (Feedback welcomed)
Chalmers: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
Armstrong: What Is Consciousness?
Güzeldere: Is Consciousness the Perception of What Passes in One's Own Mind?
Rosenthal: A Theory of Consciousness
Lycan: Consciousness as Internal Monitoring
Dretske: Conscious Experience
Block: On A Confusion about a Function of Consciousness
Dennett & Kinsbourne: Time and the Observer
Patricia Churchland: Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?
Crick & Koch: Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness
Farah: Visual perception and Visual Awareness after Brain Damage: A Tutorial Overview
Kripke: The Identity Thesis
Searle: Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness
Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Jackson: What Mary Didn't Know
Lewis: What Experience Teaches
Shoemaker: The Inverted Spectrum
Dennett: Quining Qualia
McGinn: Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
Levine: On Leaving Out What It's Like
Rey: A Question about Consciousness
Goldman: Consciousness, Folk Psychology and Cognitive Science