Readership: Scholars and students of the philosophy of mind; scientists working on consciousness
David Rosenthal, Graduate Center, City University of New York
"David Rosenthal's Consciousness and Mind presents us with the most plausible higher-order representationalist account in the market. The book is engaging and very clearly written." - Dimitris Platchias, University of Glasgow
Introduction I. Explaining Consciousness 1: Two Concepts of Consciousness 2: Thinking that One Thinks 3: Intentionality 4: Introspection and Self-Interpretation II. Qualitative Consciousness and Homomorphism Theory 5: The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality 6: Sensory Quality and the Relocation Story 7: Sensory Qualities, Consciousness, and Perception III. Consciousness, Expression, and Interpretation 8: First-Person Operationalism and Mental Taxonomy 9: Moore's Paradox and Consciousness 10: Why Are Verbally Expressed Thoughts Conscious? 11: Consciousness and its Expression 12: Content, Intepretation, and Consciousness IV. Self-Consciousness 13: Unity of Consciousness and the Self Select Bilbiography Index
