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Papers on consciousness

• Consciousness and its Place in Nature
• Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
• Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness
• The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
• Consciousness and Cognition
• The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism

• How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness?
• What is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness?
• On the Search for the Neural Correlate of Consciousness
• First-Person Methods in the Science of Consciousness

• Perception and the Fall from Eden
• The Representational Character of Experience
• What is the Unity of Consciousness?
• Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia

• Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap
• Phenomenal Concepts and the Knowledge Argument
• The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief

• Imagination, Indexicality, and Intensions
• Availability: The Cognitive Basis of Experience?
• Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study
• Review of Journal of Consciousness Studies

Papers on meaning and modality

• Two-Dimensional Semantics
• On Sense and Intension
• The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics
• The Components of Content
• Soames on Two-Dimensionalism
• Scott Soames' Two-Dimensionalism (and response to Soames)

• The Nature of Epistemic Space
• Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?
• Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation
• Materialism and the Metaphysics of Modality
• Mind and Modality
• The Tyranny of the Subjunctive

• The Extended Mind
• Is There Synonymy in Ockham's Mental Language?
• Probability and Propositions
• Propositions and Attitude Ascriptions: A Fregean Account
• Conceptual Analysis meets "Two Dogmas of Empiricism'"

Papers on AI and computation

• The Matrix as Metaphysics
• A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition
• Does A Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?
• Minds, Machines, and Mathematics

• High-Level Perception, Analogy, and Representation: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Methodology
• Syntactic Transformations on Distributed Representations
• Connectionism and Compositionality: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn Were Wrong
• The Evolution of Learning: An Experiment in Genetic Connectionism
• Subsymbolic Computation and the Chinese Room

Miscellaneous writings

• The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis?
• The St. Petersburg Two-Envelope Paradox
• Strong and Weak Emergence
• Ramsey + Moore = God

• The First-Person and Third-Person Views
• A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes
• On Spaghetti-Sorters and the Powers of Analog Computation
• How Cartesian Dualism Might Have Been True

• Connectionist Representation and Deep Systematicity
• Determining the Moment of Consciousness?
• What is it Like to be a Thermostat?

• "Pick a number between zero and infinity"
• Is the Continuum Hypothesis true, false, or neither?
• Thoughts on emergence
• Does a rock implement every FSA?
• Realms of cognitive science

• In Memoriam: David Lewis

Powerpoint presentations

• Revelation, Humility, and the Structure of the World
• Terminological Disputes
• Ontological Indeterminacy
• 65,536 Definitions of Physicalism
• Primitive Concepts
• Hey Joe: Comments on Joe Levine's Purple Haze
• How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness?
• Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap
• Varieties of Representationalism
• The Fregean Content of Perception
• The Foundations of 2-D Semantics
• Envatment as a Metaphysical Hypothesis
• What is the Unity of Consciousness?

The Conscious Mind

• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Jacket copy
• Precis
• Reviews
• Response to Papineau
• Response to Searle
• Second response to Searle
• Response to Mulhauser
• Response to Hill/McLaughlin, Loar, Shoemaker, and Yablo

Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem

• Table of contents
• Reviews

Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings

• Typo page

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography

• Part 1: Consciousness and Qualia
• Part 2: Mental Content
• Part 3: Psychophysical Relations and Psychological Explanation
• Part 4: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
• Part 5: Miscellaneous Topics
• Part 6: Consciousness in Science

Online Papers on Conscoiusness

• Part 1: Philosophy of Consciousness
• Part 2: Other Philosophy of Mind
• Part 3: Science of Consciousness

Resources

• People with online papers in philosophy
• Guide to the philosophy of mind
• Web resources related to consciousness, philosophy, and such
• Online bibliographies on philosophy, consciousness, and such
• Philosophical weblogs
• Philosophical humor
• Zombies on the web
• Australasian philosophy family tree

NEH Summer Institute

• Cast of Characters
• Original Announcement
• Schedule and Readings
• Photos
• End-of-Institute Awards
• Proofs that P
• "Philosophy by Democracy" Poll Results
• Theme Song: "Consciousness Isle"

Classes

• Philosophy 596V: Foundational Issues in the Science of Consciousness (fall 1999)
• Philosophy 596B: Mind and Modality (spring 1999)
• Philosophy 596B: Meaning, Reason, and Possibility (spring 2002)
• INDV 101: Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual (fall 1999)
• INDV 101: Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual (spring 2003)
• Philosophy 80E: Paradoxes and Dilemmas (fall 1998)

Miscellaneous

• Complete list of my papers
• Online discussions of my work
• Responses to articles on my work
• Curriculum vitae

Photo Gallery

• Probability (ANU)
• New Zealand AAP (Dunedin)
• Syracuse consciousness conference
• Philosophical Methodology (ANU)
• Australasian Philosophy 2005 (Sydney)
• Metametaphysics (ANU)
• Physicalism (Bowling Green)
• Self-Representation and Consciousness (Arizona)
• Concepts and Conceptual Analysis (ANU)
• Extended Mind (Sydney)
• Mental Causation (Macquarie)
• SPP/ESPP (Barcelona)
• ASSC 8 (Antwerp)
• Consciousness and Intentionality (Florence)
• Concepts and the A Priori (Konstanz)
• Knowledge and Skepticism (Idaho)
• Tucson 2004
• Concepts and Content (UCSB)
• Modality (St. Andrews)
• Ontology of Color (Fribourg)
• Necessity (Portland)
• Common Minds (ANU)
• Cognitive Science (Sydney)
• Australasian Philosophy (Adelaide)
• Philosophy of Language (ANU)
• Language, Mind, and World (Buenos Aires)
• Rio consciousness symposium
• Emergence workshop (Granada)
• Metaphysical Mayhem 2002
• NEH Summer Institute (Santa Cruz)
• ASSC 6 (Barcelona)
• Tucson 2002
• Two-Dimensionalism (ANU)
• David Lewis memorial
• Cornell consciousness symposium
• Metaphysics of Mind (Veracruz)
• Keith Lehrer celebration
• Metaphysics of Human Beings (Syracuse)
• Two-Dimensionalism (Barcelona)
• ASSC 5 (Duke)
• Machine Consciousness workshop
• Language, Mind, and World (Tlaxcala)
• Alvin Goldman conference
• Tucson II (1996)



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