Conscious Experience

Conscious Experience
	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Editor’s Introduction
		The Problem of Consciousness (Thomas Metzinger)
	Part 1. Conceptual Foundations
		Introduction
		Why is Consciousness Puzzling? (Peter Bieri)
		What Would Count as Explaining Consciousness? (Robert Van Gulick)
		The Burning House (Michael Tye)
	Part 2. Sceptical Accounts
		Introduction
		Losing Consciousness (Kathy Wilkes)
		On the Prospects of a Naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness (Martin Kurthen)
		Towards a Projectivist Account of Conscious Experience (Georges Rey)
	Part 3. Consciousness and the Physical World
		Introduction
		Consciousness and Space (Colin McGinn)
		Time-Gestalt and the Observer (Eva Ruhnau)
		Gaps in Penrose’s Toilings (Rick Grush & Patricia Smith Churchland)
	Part 4. The Knowledge Argument
		Introduction
		What Mary Couldn’t Know: Belief About Phenomenal States (Martine Nida-Rümelin)
		A Limited Defence of Phenomenal Information (William G. Lycan)
		The Antipathetic Fallacy and the Boundaries of Consciousness (David Papineau)
	Part 5. Qualia
		Introduction
		Qualia: Intrinsic, Relational or What? (Joseph Levine)
		On the Persistence of Phenomenology (Diana Raffman)
		Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia (David J. Chalmers)
	Part 6. Consciousness and Higher-Order States
		Introduction
		Is Consciousness the Perception of What Passes in One’s Own Mind? (Giiven Giizeldere)
		Multiple Drafts and Facts of the Matter (David M. Rosenthal)
		The Dissociation of Phenomenal States from Apperception (Norton Nelkin)
	Part 7. Information-Processing and Neurobiological Approaches
		Introduction
		How is Consciousness Possible? (Robert Kirk)
		Visual Information-Processing and Phenomenal Consciousness (Ansgar Beckermann)
		Faster than Thought: Holism, Homogeneity and Temporal Coding (Thomas Metzinger)
	Part 8. Artificial Consciousness
		Introduction
		Cog: Steps Towards Consciousness in Robots (Daniel C. Dennett)
		Artificial Consciousness (Dieter Birnbacher)
	Appendix I. Selected Bibliography 1970-1995
	Appendix II. List of Contributors