CONSCIOUSNESSConsciousness is a thought-provoking collection of classic and contemporary philosophical literature on consciousness, bringing together influential scholarship by seminal thinkers and the work of emerging voices who reflect the diversity of the field. Editors Josh Weisberg and David Rosenthal have selected discussions that animate modern debates and connect consciousness to broader philosophical topics.Providing an expansive view of the philosophical landscape of consciousness studies, this carefully calibrated reader features classic work from the past four decades by seminal thinkers such as Thomas Nagel, David Lewis, Ned Block, Gilbert Harman, and Daniel Dennett, as well as important recent work from David Chalmers, Fiona Macperson, Joseph Levine, Kathleen Akins, and other contemporary philosophers.Divided into five parts, Consciousness explores the nature of consciousness, consciousness and knowledge, qualitative consciousness, and theories of consciousness. A final section on agency and physicalism includes work by Galen Strawson and a previously unpublished article by Myrto Mylopoulos.Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students, Consciousness is an ideal reader for many undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness or philosophy of mind, as well as a useful supplementary text for general classes in philosophy and a valuable reference text for philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists.

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