The nature of consciousness : philosophical debates / edited by Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Güven Güzeldere.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [817]-824) and index.

Introduction : The many faces of consciousness : a field guide / Guven Guzeldere -- Part I. Stream of consciousness -- The stream of consciousness / William James -- The Cartesian theater and "filling in" the stream of consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett -- The robust phenomenology of the stream of consciousness / Owen Flanagan -- Part II. Consciousness, science, and methodology -- Prospects for a unified theory of consciousness, or, What dreams are made of / Owen Flanagan -- Consciousness, folk psychology, and cognitive science / Alvin I. Goldman -- Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness? / Patricia Smith Churchland -- Time and the observer : the where and when of consciousness in the brain / Daniel C. Dennett and Marcel Kinsbourne -- Begging the question against phenomenal consciousness / Ned Block -- Time for more alternatives / Robert Van Gulick -- Part III. The psychology and neuropsychology of consciousness -- Contrastive phenomenology : a thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness / Bernard J. Baars -- Visual perception and visual awareness after brain damage : a tutorial overview / Martha J. Farah -- Understanding consciousness : clues from unilateral neglect and related disorders / Edoardo Bisiach -- Modularity and consciousness / Tim Shallice -- Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness / Francis Crick and Christof Koch -- Part IV. Consciousness and content -- Consciousness and content / Colin McGinn -- Externalism and experience / Martin Davies -- A representational theory of pains and their phenomenal character / Michael Tye -- Sensation and the content of experience : a distinction / Christopher Peacocke -- Part V. Function of consciousness -- Conscious inessentialism and the epiphenomenalist suspicion / Owen Flanagan -- On a confusion about a function of consciousness / Ned Block -- The path not taken / Daniel C. Dennett -- Availability : the cognitive basis of experience? / David J. Chalmers -- Fallacies or analyses? / Jennifer Church -- Two kinds of consciousness / Tyler Burge -- Understanding the phenomenal mind : are we all just armadillos? part II : the absent qualia argument / Robert Van Gulick -- Part VI. Metaphysics of consciousness -- The identity thesis / Saul A. Kripke -- Reductionism and the irreducibility of consciousness / John R. Searle -- A question about consciousness / Georges Rey -- Finding the mind in the natural world / Frank Jackson -- Breaking the hold : silicon brains, conscious robots, and other minds / John R. Searle -- The first-person perspective / Sydney Shoemaker -- Part VII. Subjectivity and explanatory gap -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- Can we solve the mind-body problem? / Colin McGinn -- On leaving out what it's like / Joseph Levine -- Part VIII. The knowledge argument -- Understanding the phenomenal mind : are we all just armadillos? part I : phenomenal knowledge and explanatory gaps / Robert Van Gulick -- What Mary didn't know / Frank Jackson -- Knowing qualia : a reply to Jackson / Paul M. Churchland -- What experience teaches / David Lewis -- Phenomenal states / Brian Loar -- Part IX. Qualia -- Quining qualia / Daniel C. Dennett -- The inverted spectrum / Sydney Shoemaker -- The intrinsic quality of experience / Gilbert Harman -- Inverted earth / Ned Block -- Curse of the qualia / Stephen L. White -- Part X. Higher-order monitoring conceptions of consciousness -- What is consciousness? / David Armstrong -- A theory of consciousness / David M. Rosenthal -- Consciousness as internal monitoring / William G. Lycan -- Conscious experience / Fred Dretske -- Is consciousness the perception of what passes in one's own mind? / Guven Guzeldere.

This text is an introduction to consciousness which aims to impose structure on the relating philosophical literature. There are sections covering stream of consciousness, theoretical issues, function of consciousness, subjectivity and the explanatory gap, the knowledge argument and qualia.