Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. Here, eighteen essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness.

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for several decades. This text aims to act as a starting point towards future research.

Intentionality and Phenomenal Content

1. Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism?, Michael Tye

2. The Intentional Structure of Consciousness, Tim Crane

3. Experience and Representation, Joseph Levine

4. Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia, Brian Loar

5. Color, Consciousness, and Color Consciousness, Brian P. McLaughlin

Knowing Mental States

6. How to Read Your Own Mind: A Cognitive Theory of Self-Consciousness, Shaul Nichols and Stephen Stich

7. Knowing Mental States: The Asymmetry of Psychological Prediction and Explanation, Kristin Andrews

8. The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief, David Chalmers

9. Privileged Access, Ernest Sosa

10. Consciousness and the Brain Consciousness and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds, James Fetzer

11. Maps, Gaps, and Traps, Robert Van Gulick

12. Theories of Consciousness, David Papineau

13. Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument, William Lycan

14. McGinn on Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem, Anthony Brueckner and E. Beroukhim

Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

15. Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics, Quentin Smith

16. Consciousness and the Quantum World: Putting Qualia on the Map, Michael Lockwood

17. Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness, Don Page

18. Consciousness and Quantum Theory: Strange Bedfellows, Barry Loewer