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AA308
Thought and Experience:
Themes in the Philosophy of Mind

BOOK 5

Consciousness
K e i t h Fr a n k i s h

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C ONTENTS
Preface

vii

1 Introducing consciousness

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11
17
36
37

2 Property dualism

39
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45
55
69
71

Defining consciousness
The elusiveness of consciousness
The problem of consciousness
Conclusion and previewFurther reading

The knowledge argument
The conceivability argument
Assessing property dualism
Conclusion
Further reading

3 Physicalism

73
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91
102
108
109

4 Representationalism

112
114
125
136
147
147

5 Rethinking consciousness

150
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163
164

Responses to the knowledge argument
Responses to the conceivability argument
The ‘explanatory gap’Conclusion
Further reading
First-order representationalism
Assessing first-order representationalism
Higher-order representationalism
Conclusion
Further reading

The ‘Cartesian Theatre’
Multiple drafts and the ‘Joycean machine’
Qualia and what it is like
Conclusion
Further reading

C onclusion

166
168

Glossary

170

Bibliography

174

Further reading

READINGS

1A catalog of conscious experiences

182

DAVID J. CHALMERS

2 The easy problems and the hard problem

188

DAVID J. CHALMERS

3 The knowledge argument

193

FRANK JACKSON

4 The conceivability of zombies

197

DAVID J. CHALMERS

5 Naturalistic dualism

202

DAVID J. CHALMERS

6 The bogey of epiphenomenalism

207

FRANK JACKSON

7 The paradox of phenomenaljudgment

210

DAVID J. CHALMERS

8 Panprotopsychism

212

DAVID J. CHALMERS

9 Mary and the blue banana

216

DANIEL C. DENNETT

10 The ability hypothesis
DAVID LEWIS

219

1 1 Mary ’s room

222

MICHAEL TYE

12 The unimagined preposterousness of zombies

225

DANIEL C. DENNETT

13 Conceivability and possibility

228

DAVID PAPINEAU

14 On properties andrecognitional concepts

230

PETER CARRUTHERS

15 The explanatory gap

233

JOSEPH LEVINE

16 Phenomenal content: the PANIC theory

235

MICHAEL TYE

17 The intentionality of feelings and experiences

239

MICHAEL TYE

18 A problem for FOR-theories

248

PETER CARRUTHERS

19 Explaining consciousness

250

DAVID M. ROSENTHAL

20 Multiple drafts and the stream of...