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- The Conscious Mind
  - Full table of contents
  - Introduction
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  - Response to reviews: Mulhauser, Papineau, Searle and Searle follow-up
- The Character of Consciousness
- Constructing the World
  - Extended Edition
  - Cosmoscope
  - Introduction
  - Chapter 1: Scrutability and the Aufbau
  - First Excursus: Scrutability and Knowability
  - Second Excursus: The Inscrutability of Reference and the Scrutability of Truth
  - Fourth Excursus: Warrants and Support Structures
  - Fifth Excursus: Insulated Idealization and the Problem of Self-Doubt
  - Seventh Excursus: Varieties of Apriority
  - Eighth Excursus: Recent Challenges to the A Priori
  - Tenth Excursus: Constructing Epistemic Space
  - Twelfth Excursus: Scrutability and the Unity of Science
  - Fourteenth Excursus: Epistemic Rigidity and Super-Rigidity
  - Eighteenth Excursus: Conceptual Analysis and Ordinary Language Philosophy
  - Nineteenth Excursus: Inferentialism and Analyticity
  - Twentieth Excursus: Reference Magnets and the Grounds of Intentionality
  - Twenty-First Excursus: Twin-Earthability and Internalism
  - Glossary
- Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings
  - List of Typos
- Metametaphysics
- Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem
Papers
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- Presentations
  - Acquaintance, Concepts, and the Knowledge Argument (APA comments on Alex Byrne and Michael Tye, 2008)
  - Attention First? Consciousness First? (wrap-up at Attention and Consciousness, 2009)
  - Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function (talk at Oslo and elsewhere, August 2013)
  - The Critique of Pure Thought (wrap-up at Consciousness and Thought, 2008)
  - The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 300 Years on (lecture in Moscow, June 2016)
  - Hey Joe: Comments on Levine’s Purple Haze (APA book symposium commentary, 2004)
  - HOT Strikes Back (comments on Hakwan Lau at Action Perception and Consciousness, 2009)
  - Integrated Information Theory: Some Philosophical Issues (Philosophical Issues in IIT, November 2015)
  - Introspection for Great Apes (wrap-up at Introspection and Consciousness, 2008)
  - Is There Consciousness Outside Attention? (comments on Jesse Prinz, SPAWN 2006)
  - R&R: The Relational and Representational Character of Experience (wrapup at Representationalism and Relationism, 2008)
  - Reflections on Phenomenal Concepts (wrap-up talk at Rio conference on phenomenal concepts, January 2013)
  - Reflexivity vs. Transparency in the Study of Consciousness (ANU workshop on Reflexive Theories of Consciousness, July 2016)
  - The Varieties of Self-Awareness (wrap-up at Self and Consciousness, 2009)
  - Concepts and the Scrutability of Truth (Concepts and the A Priori, Konstanz, 2004)
  - Could Hesperus Have Failed to be Phosphorus? (Yablofest, ANU, July 2016)
  - The Deeply Contingent A Priori (ANU, July 2003)
  - Hyperintensionality and Impossible Worlds (introduction to Hyperintensionality, 2008)
  - Kripke and Two-Dimensionalism (Kripke’s CUNY seminar on Naming and Necessity, May 2016)
  - Kripke on Frege on Sense and Reference (CUNY Kripke conference, 2011)
  - The Nonmodal Conception of Propositional Apriority (Aberdeen Apriority conference, 2012)
  - Philosophical Arguments from Ordinary Language (St. Andrews conference on language and philosophy, June 2011)
  - Primitive Concepts (ANU workshop on Concepts and Conceptual Analysis, 2005)
  - Semantic Pluralism (Konstanz workshop on semantic pluralism, January 2015)
  - Two-Dimensionalism and Inferentialism (Cologne conference on Conceptual Analysis and Two-Dimensionalism)
  - Contingentism in Metaphysics (wrap-up at Contingentism, 2008)
  - Grounding and Analyticity (Birmingham conference on grounding and consciousness, June 2016)
  - Grounding and Emergence (wrap-up at grounding and emergence conference, Glasgow June 2015)
  - Lewis’s Aufbau, (Pacific APA, April 2011)
  - Two Concepts of Metaphysical Possibility (AAP and elsewhere, July 2013)
  - 65,536 Varieties of Physicalism (wrap-up at Formulating Physicalism, 2005)
  - The Externalist and the Structuralist Responses to Skepticism (Bled conference on epistemology and philosophy of mind, 2015)
  - Finding Space in a Nonspatial World, (talk at ANU and elsewhere, June 2014)
  - Fundamentality Structuralism (AAP and elsewhere, July 2014)
  - Perception and Skepticism: From Eden to the Matrix (Riga conference on Perception and Concepts, June 2013)
  - Revelation, Humility, and the Structure of the World (ANU workshop on Revelation and Humility, 2005)
  - Spatial Illusions: From Mirrors to Virtual Reality (talk at Tubingen and elsewhere, January 2015)
  - Structuralism and the Limits of Skepticism (talk in Paris and elsewhere, June 2015)
  - From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan (AAP Presidential Address, 2007)
  - Moral Relativism and Conceptual Analysis (Sydney conference on Norms and Analysis, 2006)
  - What can Experimental Philosophy Do? (talk at NEH Institute on Experimental Philosophy, 2009)
  - X-Phi Meets A-Phi (wrap-up at Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis, 2007)
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  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Adelaide, July 2017)
  - Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem (Shanghai, June 2017)
  - Consciousness and Semantic Externalism (NYU, May 2017)
  - Brian Loar Book Launch (NYC, May 2017)
  - Structural Realism and Metaphysics (Rutgers, May 2017)
  - Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Savannah, March 2017)
  - Metaphysics on the Mountain (Sun Valley, March 2017)
  - Inaugural Lecture (NYU, December 2016)
  - Berggruen Prize Dinner (New York, December 2016)
  - Ethics of AI (NYU, October 2016)
  - Physics of the Observer (Banff, August 2016)
  - Yablanger Fest (ANU, July 2016)
  - Reflexive Theories of Consciousness (ANU, July 2016)
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  - Grounding and Consciousness (Birmingham, June 2016)
  - Moscow Consciousness (Moscow, June 2016)
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  - Metaphysics after Carnap (Leeds, April 2016)
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  - Opening of The Hard Problem (Philadelphia, January 2016)
  - Is the Brain Bayesian? (NYU, December 2015)
  - SPAWN Consciousness Conference (Syracuse, August 2015)
  - NYC Philosophy of Mind (Barnard, July 2015)
  - ASSC 2015 (Paris, July 2015)
  - Finding Space (Paris, June 2015)
  - Jean Nicod Lectures (Paris, June 2015)
  - The Return of Consciousness (Avesta, June 2015)
  - Toward a Science of Consciousness (Helsinki, June 2015)
  - Epistemology meets Philosophy of Mind (Bled, June 2015)
  - The First-Person Perspective (Athens, May 2015)
  - Emergence and Grounding (Glasgow, May 2015)
  - Equality and Diversity in Professional Philosophy (Oxford, May 2015)
  - Verbal Disputes (Oxford, May 2015)
  - ASSC 2014 (Brisbane, July 2014)
  - Consciousness Cruise (Greenland, June 2014)
  - Gottingen Colloquium (Gottingen, May 2014)
  - Consciousness and Intentionality (Mississippi, May 2014)
  - Tucson 2014 (Tucson, April 2014)
  - Intentionality at the Beach (Kioloa, July 2013)
  - The A Priori (Florence, June 2013)
  - Reference and Frege Puzzles (Umea, May 2013)
  - Constructing the World (Bonn, May 2013)
  - Perception and Concepts (Riga, May 2013)
  - Metaphysics on the Ranch (Tucson, February 2013)
  - Phenomenal Concepts (Rio de Janiero, January 2013)
  - Panpsychism on the Reef (Lady Elliot Island, July 2012)
  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Wollongong, July 2012)
  - Carolina Metaphysics Workshop (Outer Banks, June 2012)
  - Russian Cognitive Science Conference (Kaliningrad, June 2012)
  - A Priori Knowledge (Aberdeen, June 2012)
  - Phenomenology and Intentionality (Crete, June 2012)
  - Minds, Bodies, and Problems (Ankara, June 2012)
  - Analytic and Buddhist Approaches to Consciousness (Charleston, May 2012)
  - Tucson 2012 (Tucson, April 2012)
  - Philosophical Progress (Harvard, October 2011)
  - Kripke conference (CUNY, October 2011)
  - Mind and Language Seminar (NYU, fall 2011)
  - Consciousness at the Beach (Kioloa, July 2011)
  - Panpsychism and Emergence (Munich, June 2011)
  - Conceptual Analysis and Two-Dimensionalism (Cologne, June 2011)
  - Epistemology of Philosophy (Cologne, June 2011)
  - Language and Philosophy (NYU, St. Andrews, June 2011)
  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Sydney, July 2010)
  - Carolina Metaphysics Workshop (Outer Banks, June 2010)
  - John Locke Lectures (Oxford, May-June 2010)
  - Tucson 2010 (Tucson, April 2010)
  - From Experience to Thought (Delhi, January 2010)
  - Action, Perception, and Consciousness (NYU, October 2009)
  - Singularity Summit (New York, October 2009)
  - Experimental Philosophy (Salt Lake City, July 2009)
  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Melbourne, July 2009)
  - Attention and Consciousness (ANU, June 2009)
  - Toward a Science of Consciousness (Hong Kong, June 2009)
  - Consciousness and the Self (Fullerton, April 2009)
  - Philosophical Methodology (St. Andrews, April 2009)
  - Consciousness and Thought (Dubrovnik, August 2008)
  - European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Krakow, August 2008)
  - SPAWN Perception Conference (Syracuse, August 2008)
  - Reduction and Elimination (Kirchberg, August 2008)
  - World Congress of Philosophy (Seoul, August 2008)
  - Jack Smart Lecture (ANU, July 2008)
  - Perceptual Experience (ANU, July 2008)
  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Melbourne, July 2008)
  - Happiness and its Causes (Sydney, May 2008)
  - Tucson 2008 (Tucson, April 2008)
  - Expressivism, Pragmatism, and Representationalism (Sydney, August 2007)
  - Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis (ANU, July 2007)
  - Australasian Association of Philosophy (Armidale, July 2007)
  - Norms and Analysis (Sydney, June 2007)
  - Why Formal Epistemology? (Oklahoma, April 2007)
  - Consciousness at the Beach (Kioloa, February 2007)
  - Arizona Ontology Conference (Tucson, January 2007)
  - Brains, Persons, and Society (Milan, September 2006)
  - German Analytic Philosophy (Berlin, September 2006)
  - Summer School in Philosophy (Cologne, September 2006)
  - Consciousness at the Beach (Kioloa, August 2006)
  - Time and Consciousness (Sydney, July 2006)
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  - Physicalism (Bowling Green, April 2005)
  - Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness (Tucson, March 2005)
  - Concepts and Conceptual Analysis (ANU, February 2005)
  - The Extended Mind (Sydney, November 2004)
  - Mental Causation (Macquarie, September 2004)
  - Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Barcelona, July 2004)
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  - Modality (St. Andrews, November 2003)
  - Ontology of Color (Fribourg, November 2003)
  - Necessity (Portland, October 2003)
  - Common Minds (ANU, July 2003)
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  - Language, Mind, and World (Buenos Aires, May 2003)
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  - NEH Summer Institute (Santa Cruz, summer 2002)
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  - Tucson 2002 (Tucson, April 2002)
  - Two-Dimensionalism (ANU, February 2002)
  - David Lewis memorial (Princeton, February 2002)
  - Consciousness symposium (Cornell, January 2002)
  - Metaphysics of Mind (Veracruz, December 2001)
  - Keith Lehrer celebration (Tucson, October 2001)
  - Metaphysics of Human Beings (Syracuse, July 2001)
  - Two-Dimensionalism (Barcelona, June 2001)
  - ASSC 5 (Duke, May 2001)
  - Machine Consciousness (Long Island, May 2001)
  - Language, Mind, and World (Tlaxcala, March 2001)
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