Conscious Experience

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Thomas Metzinger
Imprint Academic, 1995 - Philosophy - 564 pages
The contributions to this book are original articles, representing a cross-section of current philosophical work on consciousness and thereby allowing students and readers from other disciplines to acquaint themselves with the very latest debate, so that they can then pursue their own research interests more effectively. The volume includes a bibliography on consciousness in philosophy, cognitive science and brain research, covering the last 25 years and consisting of over 1000 entries in 18 thematic sections, compiled by David Chalmers and Thomas Metzinger.
 

Contents

Introduction
41
What Would Count as Explaining Consciousness?
61
The Burning House
81
Sceptical Accounts
93
On the Prospects of a Naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness
107
Towards a Projectivist Account of Conscious Experience
123
Introduction
145
TimeGestalt and the Observer
165
On the Persistence of Phenomenology
293
Absent Qualia Fading Qualia Dancing Qualia
309
Introduction
331
Multiple Drafts and Facts of the Matter
359
The Dissociation of Phenomenal States from Apperception
373
Introduction
387
Visual InformationProcessing and Phenomenal Consciousness
409
Holism Homogeneity and Temporal Coding
425

Gaps in Penroses Toilings
185
Introduction
215
A Limited Defence of Phenomenal Information
243
The Antipathetic Fallacy and the Boundaries of Consciousness
259
Qualia
270
Intrinsic Relational or What?
277
Introduction
465
Artificial Consciousness
489
Selected Bibliography 19701995
507
List of Contributors
557
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Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-UniversitAt Mainz, Germany. He is the editor of ""Neural Correlates of Consciousness"" (MIT Press, 2000).

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