Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1JOSH WEISBERG AND DAVID ROSENTHALPart I Problems of Consciousness 151 What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 17THOMAS NAGEL2 What Is It Like to Be Boring and Myopic? 25KATHLEEN AKINS3 Consciousness and Its Place in Nature 52DAVID J. CHALMERS4 The Explanatory Gap 79JOSEPH LEVINE5 A Third-Person Approach to Consciousness 94DANIEL C. DENNETTPart II Consciousness and Knowledge 1076 What Mary Didn't Know 109FRANK JACKSON7 In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy 113KATALIN BALOG8 What Experience Teaches 126DAVID LEWISPart III Qualitative Consciousness 1419 On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness 143NED BLOCK10 The Intrinsic Quality of Experience 175GILBERT HARMAN11 How to Think about Mental Qualities 186DAVID ROSENTHALPart IV Theories of Consciousness 20312 Conscious Experience 205FRED DRETSKE13 The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of Consciousness 219URIAH KRIEGEL14 What Kind of Awareness is Awareness of Awareness? 237MICHELLE MONTAGUE15 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness 249JOSH WEISBERGPart V Agency and Physicalism 26316 Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity 265SUSANNA SCHELLENBERG17 The Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience 280MYRTO MYLOPOULOS18 Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism 294GALEN STRAWSON19 Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem: A Reply to Strawson 311FIONA MACPHERSONSelect Bibliography 322Index 327
Josh Weisberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston. His work focuses on the philosophy of mind and consciousness studies. He is the author of Consciousness: Key Concepts in Philosophy, an introductory book on the philosophical problem of consciousness, as well as numerous articles on a range of topics in philosophy of mind.David Rosenthal is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Coordinator of the Graduate Center's Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. The leading authority on higher-order theories of consciousness, Rosenthal's work focuses on philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. Series Editor: Steven M. Cahn, City University of New York Graduate School