The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• The Problems of Consciousness
• A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness
• Philosophical Problems of Consciousness
• The Hard Problem of Consciousness
• The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness
• Consciousness in Infants
• Animal Consciousness
• Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness
• Machine Consciousness
• Panpsychism
• Some Varieties of Conscious Experience
• States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming
• Affective Consciousness
• Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences
• Altered States of Consciousness: Drug-Induced States
• Anomalous Experiences
• Mindfulness
• Altered States: Mysticism
• Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness
• The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Predictions and Results
• The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Outline
• The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness
• Representationalism about Consciousness
• Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
• Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples
• Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness
• Biological Naturalism
• Emergentism
• Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism
• Naturalistic Dualism
• Physicalist Panpsychism
• Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness
• Anti-materialist Arguments and Influential Replies
• Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument
• Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness
• Functionalism and Qualia
• The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness
• The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness
• Self-Consciousness
• Philosophical Psychopathology and Self-Consciousness
• Coming Together: The Unity of Consciousness
• Consciousness and Intentionality
• Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness
• Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness
• Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
• First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness
• Resources for Students
• About the Editors