MindPapers: 1.1b. The Concept of Consciousness

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Antony, Michael V. (2006). Consciousness and vagueness. Philosophical Studies 128 (3):515-538. (Google | More links)

Antony, Michael V. (2002). Concepts of consciousness, kinds of consciousness, meanings of 'consciousness'. Philosophical Studies 109 (1):1-16. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Antony, Michael V. (2001). Conceiving simple experiences. Journal of Mind and Behavior 22 (3):263-86. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Antony, Michael V. (2001). Is 'consciousness' ambiguous? Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (2):19-44. (Cited by 13 | Google | More links)

Antony, Michael V. (1999). Outline of a general methodology for consciousness research. Anthropology and Philosophy 3:43-56. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Armstrong, David M. (1979). Three types of consciousness. In Brain and Mind. (Ciba Foundation Symposium 69). (Cited by 6 | Google)

Armstrong, David M. (1981). What is consciousness? In The Nature of Mind. Cornell University Press. (Cited by 70 | Google | Annotation)

Bain, Alexander (1894). Definition and problems of consciousness. Mind 3 (11):348-361. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Baruss, Imants (1986). Meta-analysis of definitions of consciousness. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality 6:321-29. (Google)

Becerra, Rodrigo (2004). Homonymous mistakes with ontological aspirations: The persisting problem with the word 'consciousness'. Sorites 15 (December):11-23. (Google | More links)

Bickhard, Mark H. (2005). Consciousness and reflective consciousness. Philosophical Psychology 18 (2):205-218. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Bisiach, E. (1988). The (haunted) brain and consciousness. In Anthony J. Marcel & E. Bisiach (eds.), Consciousness in Contemporary Science. Oxford University Press. (Cited by 30 | Google | Annotation)

Block, Ned (1997). Author's response. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1). (Cited by 1 | Google | View target article(s))

Bode, Boyd H. (1913). The definition of consciousness. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 10 (9):232-239. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Boodin, John E. (1908). Consciousness and reality: I. Negative definition of consciousness. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 5 (7):169-179. (Google | More links)

Bradley, Francis H. (1893). Consciousness and experience. Mind 2 (6):211-216. (Google | More links)

Burr Alexander, Hartley (1904). The concept of consciousness. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 1 (5):118-124. (Google)

Burt, Cyril (1962). The concept of consciousness. British Journal of Psychology 53:229-42. (Cited by 9 | Google | More links)

Cam, Philip (1985). Phenomenology and speech dispositions. Philosophical Studies 47 (May):357-68. (Cited by 2 | Google | Annotation)

Chalmers, David J. (1997). Availability: The cognitive basis of experience? In Ned Block, Owen J. Flanagan & Guven Guzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness. MIT Press. (Cited by 26 | Google | More links | Annotation | View replies | View target article(s))

Church, Jennifer (1998). Two sorts of consciousness? Communication and Cognition 31 (1):51-71. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Clark, Austen (2001). Phenomenal consciousness so-called. In Werner Backhaus (ed.), Neuronal Coding of Perceptual Systems. World Scientific. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Conkling, Mark L. (1977). Ryle's mistake about consciousness. Philosophy Today 21:376-388. (Google)

Crosson, Frederick J. (1966). The concept of mind and the concept of consciousness. Journal of Existentialism 6:449-458. (Google)

Davidson, William L. (1881). Definition of consciousness. Mind 6 (23):406-412. (Google | More links)

de Sousa, Ronald B. (2002). Twelve varieties of subjectivity. In M. Larrazabal & P. Miranda (eds.), Twelve Varieties of Subjectivity: Dividing in Hopes of Conquest. Kluwer. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Dennett, Daniel C. (2001). Consciousness: How much is that in real money? In Richard L. Gregory (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind. Oxford University Press. (Google)

Dewey, John (1906). The terms 'conscious' and `consciousness'. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 3 (2):39-41. (Cited by 11 | Google | More links)

Faw, Bill (2002). Phenomenal, access, and reflexive consciousness: The missing 'blocks' in Ned Block's typlogy. Consciousness and Emotion 3 (2):145-158. (Google)

Fite, Warner (1895). The priority of inner experience. Philosophical Review 4 (2):129-142. (Google | More links)

Gennaro, Rocco J. (1995). Does mentality entail consciousness? Philosophia 24 (3-4):331-58. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Girle, Roderic A. (1996). Shades of consciousness. Minds and Machines 6 (2):143-57. (Google | More links)

Goldman, Alvin (1993). Consciousness, folk psychology, and cognitive science. Consciousness and Cognition 2:364-382. (Cited by 31 | Google | More links)

Harman, Gilbert (online). What is cognitive access? (Google)

Heinemann, F. H. (1941). The analysis of 'experience'. Philosophical Review 50 (November):561-584. (Google | More links)

Helminiak, Daniel A. (1984). Consciousness as a subject matter. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 14 (July):211-230. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Hennig, Boris (2007). Cartesian conscientia. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (3):455-484. (Google | More links)

Hodgson, Shadworth H. (1894). Reflective consciousness. Mind 3 (10):208-221. (Google | More links)

Honderich, Ted (1998). Consciousness as existence. In Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge University Press. (Cited by 6 | Google | More links)

Honderich, Ted (2004). Consciousness as existence, devout physicalism, spiritualism. Mind and Matter 2 (1):85-104. (Cited by 7 | Google | More links)

Honderich, Ted (2000). Consciousness as existence again. In Bernard Elevitch (ed.), Theoria. Charlottesville: Philosophy Doc Ctr. (Cited by 6 | Google)

Honderich, Ted (2003). Perceptual, reflective, and affective consciousness as existence. In Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Minds and Persons. Cambridge University Press. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Hutto, Daniel D. (2001). Consciousness and Conceptual Schema. In Paavo Pylkkanen & Tere Vaden (eds.), Dimensions of Conscious Experience. John Benjamins. (Cited by 1 | Google)

James, William (1904). Does "consciousness" exist? Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods 1 (18):477-491. (Cited by 171 | Google | More links)

James, William (2005). The notion of consciousness: Communication made (in french) at the 5th international congress of psychology, Rome, 30 April 1905. Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (7):55-64. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Johnson, A. H. (1964). Ordinary experience. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (September):96-107. (Google | More links)

Kirk, Robert E. (1992). Consciousness and concepts. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement 66 (66):23-40. (Cited by 7 | Google | Annotation)

Knobe, Joshua & Prinz, Jesse J. (2008). Intuitions about consciousness: Experimental studies. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (1):67-83. (Google | More links)

Kriegel, Uriah (2006). Consciousness: Phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness, and scientific practice. In Paul R. Thagard (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science. Elsevier. (Google)

Krikorian, Y. H. (1938). An empirical definition of consciousness. Journal of Philosophy 35 (6):156-161. (Google | More links)

Lagerspetz, Olli (2002). Experience and consciousness in the shadow of Descartes. Philosophical Psychology 15 (1):5-18. (Google | More links)

Laird, John (1923). Mental process and the conscious quality. Mind 32 (127):273-288. (Google | More links)

Lormand, Eric (1996). Nonphenomenal consciousness. NoÃ»s 30 (2):242-61. (Cited by 20 | Google | More links)

Lormand, Eric (online). What qualitative consciousness is like. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Lycan, William G. (online). The plurality of consciousness. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Manson, Neil Campbell (2002). Epistemic consciousness. Studies in History and Philosophy of ScienceA 33 (3):425-441. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Manson, Neil Campbell (2000). State consciousness and creature consciousness: A real distinction. Philosophical Psychology 13 (3):405-410. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Margolis, Joseph (1980). The concept of consciousness. Philosophic Exchange 3:3-18. (Google)

Matthews, Gareth B. (1977). Consciousness and life. Philosophy 52 (January):13-26. (Cited by 4 | Google)

McBride, R. (1999). Consciousness and the state/transitive/creature distinction. Philosophical Psychology 12 (2):181-196. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Moody, Todd C. (1986). Distinguishing consciousness. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (December):289-95. (Google | More links | Annotation)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1985). An introduction to the perceptual kind of conception of direct (reflective) consciousness. Journal of Mind and Behavior 6:333-356. (Cited by 8 | Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1983). A selective review of conceptions of consciousness with special reference to behavioristic contributions. Cognition and Brain Theory 6:417-47. (Cited by 6 | Google | Annotation)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1978). Consciousness. American Psychologist 33:906-14. (Cited by 37 | Google | Annotation)

Natsoulas, Thomas (2000). Consciousness and conscience. Journal of Mind and Behavior 21 (4):327-352. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1995). Consciousness(3) and Gibson's concept of awareness. Journal of Mind and Behavior 3 (3):305-28. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1997). Consciousness and self-awareness: Consciousness (1,2,3,4,5,6). Journal of Mind and Behavior 18 (1):53-94. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1983). Concepts of consciousness. Journal of Mind and Behavior 4:195-232. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1993). Consciousness(4): Varieties of intrinsic theory. Journal of Mind and Behavior 14 (2):107-32. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (2001). On the intrinsic nature of states of consciousness: Attempted inroads from the first person perspective. Journal Of Mind And Behavior 22 (3):219-248. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1998). Tertiary consciousness. Journal of Mind and Behavior 19 (2):141-176. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1998). The case for intrinsic theory (parts 1-3). Journal of Mind and Behavior 17:267-85. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1991). The concept of consciousness(1): The interpersonal meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 21 (September):63-89. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1991). The concept of consciousness(2): The personal meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 21 (September):339-67. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1992). The concept of consciousness(3): The awareness meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 2 (2):199-25. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1994). The concept of consciousness(4): The reflective meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 24 (4):373-400. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1994). The concept of consciousness(5): The unitive meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 24 (4):401-24. (Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1999). The concept of consciousness: The general state meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 29 (1):59-87. (Cited by 29 | Google | More links)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1991). The concept of consciousness: The personal meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (September) 339 (September):339-367. (Cited by 15 | Google | More links)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1992). The concept of consciousness: The awareness meaning. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 22 (2):199-225. (Cited by 9 | Google)

Natsoulas, Thomas (1996). The sciousness hypothesis: Part I. Journal of Mind and Behavior 17 (1):45-66. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Nelkin, Norton (1993). What is consciousness? Philosophy of Science 60 (3):419-34. (Cited by 11 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Nelkin, Norton (1987). What is it like to be a person? Mind and Language 21:220-41. (Cited by 5 | Google | Annotation)

Nguyen, A. Minh (2001). A critique of Dretske's conception of state consciousness. Journal of Philosophical Research 26 (January):187-206. (Google)

O'Shaughnessy, Brian (1998). Experience. In Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge University Press. (Google)

O'Shaughnessy, Brian (1991). The anatomy of consciousness. Philosophical Issues 1:135-177. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Piccinini, Gualtiero (2007). The ontology of creature consciousness: A challenge for philosophy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (1). (Google | More links)

Place, Ullin T. (1992). Two concepts of consciousness: The biological/private and the linguistic/social. Acta Analytica 7 (8):53-72. (Google)

Prinz, Jesse J. (2007). All consciousness is perceptual. In Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan D. Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind. Blackwell. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Rehmke, Johannes (1897). Experience. Philosophical Review 6 (6):608-625. (Google | More links)

Rehmke, Johannes (1897). Fundamental conceptions regarding the nature of consciousness. Philosophical Review 6 (5):449-470. (Google | More links)

Roberts, William H. (1941). Experience - noun or verb? Journal of Philosophy 38 (September):542-548. (Google | More links)

Rose, Hilary (1999). Changing constructions of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (11-12):251-258. (Google)

Rosenthal, David (web). Concepts and definitions of consciousness. In P W. Banks (ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness. Elsevier. (

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