Online papers on consciousness
Compiled by David Chalmers
This is a directory of about 190 online papers on consciousness and closely
related topics. Suggestions for addition are welcome (N.B. most papers
are by academic philosophers or scientists).
For other sources of online papers, see:
The Concept of Consciousness
- Ned Block, On
a confusion about a function of consciousness
- David Chalmers, Availability:
The cognitive basis of experience?
- Eric Gillett, Searle
and the "deep unconscious" (and Dan Lloyd's commentary)
- Alvin Goldman, The
psychology of folk psychology
- Alvin Goldman, Consciousness,
folk psychology, and cognitive science
- William James, Does
`consciousness' exist?
- Aaron Sloman, Notes
on consciousness
- Aaron Sloman, What
is it like to be a rock?
The Explanatory Gap
- Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker, Conceptual
analysis and the explanatory gap
- David Chalmers, Facing
up to the problem of consciousness
- David Chalmers, Moving
forward on the problem of consciousness
- Patricia Churchland, The
hornswoggle problem
- Daniel Dennett, Facing
backwards on the problem of consciousness
- James Garvey, What
does McGinn think we cannot know?
- James Hopkins, Mind
as metaphor: A physicalistic approach to the problem of consciousness
- Marc Krellenstein, Unsolvable
problems, visual imagery, and explanatory satisfaction
- Bruce MacLennan, The
elements of consciousness and their neurodynamical correlates
- Edwin Ong, Explaining
the explanatory gap
Materialism and Dualism
- Selmer Bringsjord, Searle
on the brink
- Andrew Chrucky, Critique
of Wilfrid Sellars' materialism
- Rene Descartes, Meditations
on First Philosophy
- Peter J. King, Dualism:
An empirical test
- Brian Loar, Phenomenal
states
- Peter Lloyd, Is
the mind physical? Dissecting conscious brain tissue
- Marvin Minsky, Minds
are simply what brains do
- Marvin Minsky, Matter,
minds, and models
- Hans Moravec, Dualism
through reductionism
- Paul Moser & J. D. Trout, Contemporary
materialism
- Michael Tye, Knowing
what it is like: The ability hypothesis and the knowledge argument
- Thomas Polger, Escaping
the epiphenomenal trap
Metaphysics of Consciousness
- David Chalmers, Consciousness
and cognition
- Fred Dretske, The
mind's awareness of itself
- Fergus Duniho, The
mind/body problem and its solution
- Mark Johnston, It
necessarily ain't so
- Mark Johnston, The
Manifest, Chapter 1 (also Chapter
5, Chapter
7)
- Colin McGinn, Consciousness
and Space
- Paul Meehl & Wilfrid Sellars, The
concept of emergence
- David Pearce, Cosmic
consciousness for tough minds
- Gregg Rosenberg, Consciousness,
causation, and the deep structure of the world
- Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism
and the philosophy of mind
Zombies
- Selmer Bringsjord, In
defense of impenetrable zombies
- Selmer Bringsjord, The
zombie attack on the computational conception of mind
- David Chalmers, Self-ascription
without qualia: A case-study
- Allin Cottrell, On
the conceivability of zombies: Chalmers v. Dennett
- Daniel Dennett, The
unimagined preposterousness of zombies"
- Owen Flanagan & Tom Polger, Zombies
and the function of consciousness
- Stevan Harnad, Why
and how we are not zombies
- Larry Hauser, Revenge
of the zombies
- Jaron Lanier, You
can't argue with a zombie
- John McCarthy, Todd
Moody's zombies
- Todd Moody, Conversations
with zombies
- Nigel Shardlow, Zombies
- Nigel Thomas, Zombie
killer
Qualia
- David Chalmers, Absent
qualia, fading qualia, dancing qualia
- Daniel Dennett, Instead
of qualia
- Daniel Dennett, Lovely
and suspect qualities
- Daniel Dennett, Quining
qualia
- Richard Gregory, Peculiar
qualia
- Richard Gregory, What
do qualia do?
- Interscience Review, The
ontogeny of qualia
- Sydney Shoemaker, Color,
subjective reactions, and qualia
- Sydney Shoemaker, The
phenomenal character of experience
Consciousness and Intentionality
- Kent Bach, Engineering
the mind
- Kent Bach, How
can experiences find their objects?
- Ned Block, Mental
ink
- Craig Delancey, Mood
and the representational theory of consciousness
- Guven Guzeldere & Murat Aydede, On
the relation between phenomenal and representational properties
- Robert Kirk, Why
ultra-externalism goes too far
- Joe Lau, Representational theories of consciousness
- Christopher Peacocke, Conscious
attitudes, attention, and self-knowledge
- Daniel Stoljar, What
what it's like isn't like
- Michael Tye, What
what it's like is really like
- Michael Tye, Inverted
Earth, Swampman, and representationism
- Wayne Wright, Tye,
tree-rings, and representation
The Function of Consciousness
The Self and Personal Identity
- Stephen Clark, Minds,
memes, and multiples
- Arthur Deikman, `I'
= Awareness
- Daniel Dennett, The
self as a center of narrative gravity
- Jerry Goodenough, On
the methodology of thought experiments
- Nicholas Humphrey & Daniel Dennett, Speaking
for our selves
- John Locke, Of
identity and diversity
- Max More, The
diachronic self
- Roland Puccetti, Dennett
on the split brain (and replies)
- Brock Sides, Williams
on personal identity
- Joe Strout, Mind
uploading home page
Philosophy of Consciousness (Misc.)
Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence
- William Bechtel, Consciousness:
Perspectives from symbolic and connectionist AI
- John Beloff, Minds
or machines
- Selmer Bringsjord, What
robots can and can't be (and replies)
- Daniel Dennett, The
practical requirements for making a conscious robot
- Valerie Hardcastle, Conscious
computations
- Inman Harvey, Evolving
robot consciousness: The easy problems and the rest
- Jaron Lanier, Mindless
thought experiments (a critique of machine intelligence)
- John McCarthy, Making
robots conscious of their mental states
- Marvin Minsky, Conscious
machines
- Aaron Sloman, A
systems approach to consciousness
- Stanford Humanities Review, Constructions
of the mind: Artificial intelligence and the humanities
The Chinese room
- Daniel Dennett, Fast
thinking
- Stevan Harnad, Minds,
machines, and Searle
- Stevan Harnad et al, Symposium
on Symbolism, Connectionism, and the Chinese room
- Pat Hayes/Stevan Harnad/Don Perlis/Ned Block, Virtual
symposium on virtual mind
- Diane Law, Searle,
subsymbolic functionalism, and synthetic intelligence
- John Y.R. Shen, A
real Chinese room
Gödel's theorem and AI
- Damjan Bojadziev, Gödel's
theorem for minds and computers
- Selmer Bringsjord, A
refutation of Penrose's new Gödelian case against the computational
conception of mind
- Matt Caywood, Lucas's
fallacy modified: A critique of Penrose's Shadows ofthe Mind
- David Chalmers, Minds,
machines, and mathematics
- Kari Coleman, Godel
propositions for the mind
- Harry Deutsch, Deconstructing
mathematics and mind: Some implications of Gödel's incompleteness
theorems
- Solomon Feferman, Penrose's
Gödelian argument
- Rick Grush & Patricia Churchland, Gaps
in Penrose's toilings
- J. R. Lucas, The
Gödelian argument: Turn over the page
- J. R. Lucas, The
implications of Gödel's theorem
- Tim Maudlin, Between
the motion and the act...
- Daryl McCullough, Can
humans escape Gödel?
- Drew McDermott, [STAR]
Penrose is wrong
- Roger Penrose, Beyond
the doubting of a shadow
- Hilary Putnam, Review
of Shadows of the Mind
- Brian Rosmaita, Minds,
machines, and metamathematics
- Aaron Sloman, The
emperor's real mind
Consciousness and Neuroscience
Cognitive Models of Consciousness
- Bruce Bridgeman, On
the evolution of consciousness and language (and replies)
- Daniel Dennett, Consciousness:
More like fame than television
- Daniel Dennett, Filling
in vs. finding out: A ubiquitous confusion in cognitive science
- Philip Dorrell, Computation
vs. feelings and the production/judgment model
- Stevan Harnad, Consciousness:
An afterthought
- Josh McDermott, Global
workspace theory: Consciousness explained?
- Thomas Metzinger, Faster
than thought: Holism, homogeneity, and temporal coding(and comments)
- Gregory Mulhauser, Seating
conscious sensation in a materially instantiated data structure
- Ruadhan O'Flanagan, Underlying
mechanisms of consciousness
- Gerd Sommerhoff, Consciousness
explained as an internal integrating system
Unconscious Perception
Implicit Learning and Implicit Memory
- Axel Cleeremans, Principles
for implicit learning
- Tim Curran, On
the neural mechanisms of sequence learning
- Sean Draine, Anthony Greenwald, & Mahzarin Banaji, Modeling
unconscious gender bias in fame judgments.
- Scott Gazzard, On
the implicit learning of sequential and conceptual rules
- Anthony Greenwald, A
"response window" procedure to produce large supraliminal and
subliminal semantic priming effects
- Georgina Jackson & Stephen Jackson, Do
measures of explicit learning actually measure what is being learnt in
the serial reaction time task? (and commentary)
- Luis Jiménez, Castor Méndez, & Axel Cleeremans, Comparing
direct and indirect measures of implicit learning
- Daniel Willingham & Laura Preuss, The
death of implicit memory
Consciousness and Psychology (Misc.)
Animal Consciousness
Consciousness and Physics
- C. J. S. Clarke, Modeling
participatory consciousness
- C. J. S. Clarke, The
nonlocality of mind
- Gordon Globus, Quantum
consciousness is cybernetic
- Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose, Conscious
events as orchestrated space-time selections
- Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose, Orchestrated
reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: A model for consciousness
- Kirk Ludwig, Why
the difference between quantum and classical mechanics is irrelevant to
the mind-body problem
- Gregory Mulhauser, On
the end of a quantum mechanical romance
- Henry Stapp, Chance,
choice, and consciousness: A causal quantum theory of the mind/brain
- Henry Stapp, Science
of consciousness and the hard problem
- Henry Stapp, The
hard problem: A quantum approach
- Henry Stapp, Why
classical mechanics cannot naturally accommodate consciousness but quantum
mechanics can
Methodologies
Miscellaneous
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