The reflexive nature of consciousness

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janzen, Greg
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 72.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conscious states, reflexivity, and phenomenal character
  • Some remarks on methodology
  • Some semantics of "consciousness"
  • Preamble
  • Creature consciousness : transitive and intransitive
  • State consciousness
  • Unconscious mental states
  • Self-consciousness
  • Phenomenal consciousness
  • A formula for state consciousness
  • Nagel's what-it-is-like formula
  • Putative counterexamples
  • Non-conscious phenomenality?
  • Summary
  • Consciousness and self-awareness
  • Preamble
  • A gloss on intentionality
  • The transitivity principle
  • Two positive arguments for the transitivity principle
  • Higher-orderism
  • Preamble
  • The higher-order theory of consciousness
  • A "one-state" alternative
  • Preamble
  • The Brentanian model
  • Objections and replies
  • Representationalism
  • Preamble
  • The representational theory of phenomenal character
  • The nature of phenomenal character
  • Preamble
  • Phenomenal character as implicit self-awareness
  • Some brief remarks on privacy
  • Conclusion.