Online Papers on Consciousness

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Introduction

This is a directory of 5200 free online papers on consciousness in philosophy and in science, and of related topics in the philosophy of mind. The papers in this directory are drawn from PhilPapers, a database of both online and offline works in philosophy.
Table of Contents

• I. Philosophy of Consciousness [3742 entries]
• II. Science of Consciousness [1378 entries]
• III. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence [570 entries]
• IV. Philosophy of Cognitive Science [1376 entries]
• V. Intentionality [1098 entries]
• VI. Perception [1040 entries]
• VII. Metaphysics of Mind [724 entries]
• VIII. Miscellaneous Philosophy of Mind [1338 entries]

Philosophy of Consciousness

• Philosophy of Consciousness, Miscellaneous [92]
  
  • Philosophy of Consciousness, General Works [26]
  • The Concept of Consciousness [38]
  • Philosophy of Consciousness, Misc [28]
• Explaining Consciousness? [110]
  
  • What is it Like? [11]
  • Subjectivity and Objectivity [11]
  • The Explanatory Gap [29]
  • `Hard' and `Easy' Problems [34]
  • Cognitive Closure [6]
  • Conceptual Analysis and A Priori Entailment [9]
  • Explaining Consciousness, Misc [10]
• Consciousness and Materialism [206]
  
  • The Knowledge Argument [50]
  • Zombies and the Conceivability Argument [74]
  • Kripke's Modal Argument [5]
  • Arguments from Disembodiment [5]
  • Other Anti-Materialist Arguments [7]
  • Consciousness and Materialism, Misc [6]
  • Mind-Body Problem, General [26]
• Specific Views on Consciousness [260]
  
  • Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness [88]
    
    • Higher-Order Perception Theories of Consciousness [2]
    • Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, Misc [1]
    • Higher-Order Thought Theories of Consciousness [57]
    • Self-Representational Theories of Consciousness [28]
  • Dennett's Functionalism [28]
  • Searle's Biological Naturalism [4]
  • Functionalism about Consciousness [4]
  • Eliminativism about Consciousness [4]
  • Dualism about Consciousness [7]
  • Panpsychism [25]
  • Russellian Monism [7]
  • Neutral Monism [7]
  • Idealism [5]
  • Specific Views on Consciousness, Misc [0]
• Consciousness and Content [175]
  
  • Consciousness and Intentionality [27]
  • Representationalism [84]
  • Phenomenal Intentionality [12]
  • Conscious Thought [5]
  • Internalism and Externalism about Experience [11]
  • Phenomenal Concepts [27]
  • Consciousness and Content, Misc [9]
• Aspects of Consciousness [1420]
  
  • Self-Consciousness [61]
  • The Unity of Consciousness [40]
  • Homogeneity of Consciousness [6]
  • Knowledge of Consciousness [20]
  • The Function of Consciousness [24]
  • Temporal Consciousness [25]
  • Consciousness of Action [16]
  • Unconscious States [4]
  • Collective Consciousness [0]
  • Aspects of Consciousness, Misc [0]
• Qualia [101]
  
  • Qualia, Misc [15]
  • Qualia and Materialism [6]
  • Eliminativism about Qualia [8]
  • The Inverted Spectrum [27]
  • Absent Qualia [5]
  • Functionalism and Qualia [6]

Intentionality

• Propositional Attitudes [190]
  
  • The Language of Thought [16]
  • The Intentional Stance [18]
  • Eliminativism about Propositional Attitudes [13]
  • Propositional Attitudes, Misc [14]
• Content Internalism and Externalism [238]
  
  • Is Content in the Head? [18]
  • Social Externalism [22]
  • Externalism and Psychological Explanation [17]
  • Externalism and Mental Causation [4]
  • Externalism and the Theory of Vision [3]
  • Externalism and Computation [2]
  • Externalism and Self-Knowledge [77]
  • Narrow Content [22]
  • The Extended Mind [32]
  • Content Internalism and Externalism, Misc [22]
• Naturalizing Mental Content [120]
  
  • Information-Based Accounts of Mental Content [24]
  • Asymmetric-Dependence Accounts of Mental Content [7]
  • Causal Accounts of Mental Content, Misc [3]
  • Teleological Accounts of Mental Content [25]
  • Inferentialist Accounts of Meaning and Content [19]
  • Interpretivist Accounts of Meaning and Content [9]
  • Naturalizing Mental Content, Misc [21]
• The Nature of Contents [191]
  
  • Fregean and Russellian Contents [0]
  • Indexical Contents [1]
  • Intentional Objects [6]
  • Object-Dependent Contents [0]
  • Two-Dimensionalism about Content [7]
  • The Nature of Contents, Misc [1]
• Aspects of Intentionality [97]
  
  • Naturalism and Intentionality [8]
  • Kripkenstein on Meaning [11]
  • Rule-Following [15]
  • Normativity of Meaning and Content [14]
  • Meaning Holism [20]
  • Explanatory Role of Content [12]
  • Collective Intentionality [17]
  • Aspects of Intentionality, Misc [0]
• Representation [136]
  
  • The Concept of Representation [0]
  • Varieties of Representation [0]
  • Theories of Representation [0]
  • Skepticism about Representations [0]
  • Representation, Misc [0]
• Concepts [114]
  
  • Perception-Based Theories of Concepts [0]
  • Inferential Theories of Concepts [0]
  • Prototype and Exemplar Theories of Concepts [0]
  • Theory-Based Theories of Concepts [1]
  • Atomist Theories of Concepts [0]
  • Theories of Concepts, Misc [0]
  • Conceptual Change [3]
  • Concept Possession [0]
  • Ontology of Concepts [0]
  • Recognitional Concepts [0]
  • Concepts, Misc [0]
• Intentionality, Misc [13]

Perception

• The Nature of Perceptual Experience [53]
  
  • Sense-Datum Theories [12]
  • Adverbialism and Qualia Theories [3]
  • Intentionalist Theories of Perception [7]
  • Belief Theories of Perception [0]
  • Naive and Direct Realism [12]
  • Disjunctivism [12]
  • The Nature of Perceptual Experience, Misc [7]
• Perceptual Qualities [210]
  
  • Sound [10]
  • Primary and Secondary Qualities [2]
  • Perceptual Qualities, Misc [2]
  • Discriminability [9]
• Color [87]
  
  • Physicalist Theories of Color [0]
  • Dispositionalist Theories of Color [0]
  • Primitivist Theories of Color [0]
  • Theories of Color, Misc [0]
  • Color Realism [0]
  • Color Irrealism [0]
  • Color Terms [0]
  • Color, Misc [0]
• Aspects of Perception [37]
  
  • Illusion and Hallucination [7]
  • Transparency [16]
  • Perceptual Reports [1]
  • Sensation and Perception [5]
  • Aspects of Perception, Misc [0]
• Philosophy of Perception, General [7]
• The Perceptual Relation [24]
  
  • The Causal Theory of Perception [5]
  • Direct and Indirect Perception [6]
  • The Objects of Perception [7]
  • The Perceptual Relation, Misc [6]
• The Contents of Perception [90]
  
  • Conceptual and Nonconceptual Content [33]
  • Color Experience [17]
  • Spatial Experience [13]
  • The Experience of Objects [11]
  • The Experience of High-Level Properties [6]
  • The Contents of Perception, Misc [10]
• Sensory Modalities [54]
  
  • Distinguishing the Senses [9]
  • Vision [10]
  • Other Sensory Modalities [4]
  • Molyneux's Problem [5]
  • Sensory Modalities, Misc [1]
• Science of Perception [291]
  
  • Modularity and Cognitive Penetrability [8]
  • Ecological Approaches to Perception [7]
  • Construction and Inference in Perception [4]
  • Perception and Neuroscience [5]
  • Psychophysics [5]
  • Gestalt Theory [5]
  • Science of Perception, Misc [0]
• Perception and the Mind [123]
  
  • Perception and Thought [4]
  • Perception and Action [44]
  • Perception and Reference [5]
  • Perception and Phenomenology [6]
  • Perception and the Mind, Misc [0]
• Perceptual Knowledge [64]
  
  • Dogmatism about Perception [0]
  • Epistemic and Non-epistemic Perception [1]
  • Perceptual Justification [0]
  • Perception and Knowledge, Misc [1]
  • Perception and Skepticism [1]
  • The Given [8]

Metaphysics of Mind

• Physicalism about the Mind [275]
  
  • Formulating Physicalism [14]
  • Mind-Brain Identity Theory [10]
  • Eliminative Materialism [1]
  • Anomalous Monism [13]
  • Physicalism about the Mind, Misc [13]
• Dualism [43]
  
  • Interactionism [8]
  • Epiphenomenalism [16]
  • Psychophysical Parallelism [2]
  • Dualism, Misc [10]
• Functionalism and Behaviorism [36]
  
  • Logical Behaviorism [8]
  • Causal Role Functionalism [2]
  • Machine Functionalism [4]
  • Functionalism, Misc [22]
• Supervenience [42]
  
  • Psychophysical Supervenience [4]
  • Supervenience and Physicalism [10]
  • Supervenience, General [18]
  • Supervenient Causation [1]
• Psychophysical Reduction [60]
  
  • Nonreductive Materialism [12]
  • Reduction in Psychology and Neuroscience [12]
  • Multiple Realizability [24]
  • Psychophysical Reduction, Misc [12]
• Other Psychophysical Theories [44]
• Mental Causation [139]
  
  • Anomalous Monism and Mental Causation [0]
  • Functionalism and Mental Causation [0]
  • The Exclusion Problem [3]
  • Mental Causation, Misc [0]
• Personal Identity [77]
  
  • Personal Identity, Misc [18]
  • Survival and What Matters [6]
  • Persons [11]
  • The Self [24]
  • Psychological Theories of Personal Identity [1]
  • Physical and Animalist Theories [8]
  • Fission and Split Brains [2]
  • Multiple Personality [4]
• Metaphysics of Mind, Misc [8]

Miscellaneous Philosophy of Mind

• Mental States [765]
  
  • Attention [103]
    
    • Attention and Consciousness [11]
    • Attention, Misc [0]
    • The Nature of Attention [1]
  • Belief [60]
    
    • Belief, Misc [1]
    • Collective Belief [0]
    • De Re Belief [0]
    • The Nature of Belief [6]
    • Tacit and Dispositional Belief [0]
  • Bodily Experience [84]
    
    • Bodily Awareness [5]
    • Bodily Experience, Misc [0]
    • Bodily Sensations [1]
  • Desire [8]
    
    • Desire as Belief [0]
    • Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being [1]
    • Pleasure and Desire [0]
    • Theories of Desire, Misc [0]
    • Desire, Misc [0]
  • Dreams [18]
    
    • Dreams, Misc [0]
    • The Nature of Dreaming [1]
  • Emotions [89]
    
    • Classifying Emotions [0]
    • Cognitive Theories of Emotions [0]
    • Emotions and Appraisals [1]
    • Emotions and Feelings [2]
    • Emotion and Rationality [1]
    • Moods [0]
    • Objects and Contents of Emotions [2]
    • The Nature of Emotion, Misc [0]
  • Mental Imagery [29]
  • Imagination [40]
    
    • Imaginative Resistance [0]
    • Imagination and Imagery [2]
    • Imagination and Pretense [4]
    • Imagination, Misc [7]
  • Intuition [7]
    
    • Epistemology of Intuition [4]
    • Intuition, Misc [1]
    • The Nature of Intuition [0]
  • Memory [145]
    
    • Epistemology of Memory [0]
    • Memory and Cognitive Science [0]
    • Memory, Misc [0]
    • The Nature of Memory [0]
  • Mental Actions [3]
  • Moral Psychology [136]
    
    • Moral Imagination [0]
    • Moral Education [0]
    • Altruism and Psychological Egoism [0]
    • Ethics and Cognitive Science [28]
      
      • Evolution of Morality [0]
      • Neuroscience of Ethics [0]
      • Psychology of Ethics [0]
      • Ethics and Cognitive Science, Misc [0]
    • Moral Character [1]
      
      • Authenticity [0]
      • Personality [0]
      • Integrity [1]
      • Moral Sainthood [0]
      • Skepticism about Character [0]
      • Virtues and Vices [0]
      • Moral Character, Misc [0]
    • Moral States and Processes [106]
      
      • Forgiveness [0]
      • Courage [0]
      • Cruelty [0]
      • Hope [0]
      • Envy [0]
      • Gratitude [0]
      • Guilt and Shame [0]
      • Happiness [1]
      • Hypocrisy [0]
      • Tolerance [0]
      • Alienation [0]
      • Moral Phenomenology [2]
      • Jealousy [0]
      • Kindness [0]
      • Moral Deliberation [0]
      • Moral Intuition [0]
      • Moral Perception [0]
      • Resentment [0]
      • Schadenfreude [0]
      • Self-Deception [11]
      • Anger [0]
      • Sympathy [1]
      • Trust [2]
      • Moral States and Processes, Misc [0]
    • Moral Psychology, Misc [0]
  • Pain [28]
    
    • The Concept of Pain [0]
    • Location of Pain [0]
    • Pain and Pain Experience [0]
    • Pain and Perception [0]
    • Pain, Misc [0]
    • Pain and Mental Objects [0]
  • Pleasure [8]
    
    • Pleasure and Pain [0]
    • Pleasure, Misc [0]
    • The Value of Pleasure [0]
  • Thought and Thinking [7]
  • Mental States, Misc [0]
• Self-Knowledge [312]
  
  • Observational Accounts [7]
  • Commitment/Expression-Based Accounts [7]
  • Constitutive Accounts [4]
  • First-Person Authority and Privileged Access [13]
  • Infallibility and Incorrigibility [0]
  • Self-Knowledge, Misc [30]
• The Problem of Other Minds [8]
  
  • Analogy and Other Minds [0]
  • Abduction and Other Minds [0]
  • Criteria and Other Minds [1]
  • Direct Knowledge and Other Minds [0]
  • Induction and Other Minds [0]
  • Other Minds, Misc [0]
  • Private Language and Other Minds [0]
• Free Will [247]
  
  • Free Will and Science [44]
    
    • Free Will and Genetics [4]
    • Free Will and Neuroscience [13]
    • Free Will and Physics [3]
    • Free Will and Psychology [18]
    • Free Will and Science, Misc [6]
  • Theories of Free Will [119]
    
    • Agent Causation [10]
    • Compatibilism [34]
    • Free Will Skepticism [8]
    • Identification Theories [3]
    • Incompatibilism [31]
    • Libertarianism about Free Will [18]
    • Semi-Compatibilism [2]
    • Theories of Free Will, Misc [7]
  • Topics in Free Will [33]
    
    • Alternative Possibilities [17]
    • Determinism [0]
    • Fatalism [1]
    • Free Will and Responsibility [7]
    • Free Will and Foreknowledge [3]
    • Topics in Free Will, Misc [0]
  • Free Will, Misc [0]
• Philosophy of Mind, General Works [6]

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

• Can Machines Think? [185]
  
  • The Turing Test [52]
  • Godelian arguments [30]
  • The Chinese Room [39]
  • Machine Consciousness [32]
  • Machine Mentality, Misc [32]
• Computation and Representation [80]
  
  • Symbols and Symbol Systems [16]
  • Computational Semantics [12]
  • Implicit/Explicit Rules and Representations [9]
  • AI without Representation? [10]
  • Computation and Representation, Misc [8]
• Philosophy of Connectionism [99]
  
  • Connectionism and Compositionality [21]
  • Representation in Connectionism [20]
  • Connectionism and Eliminativism [5]
  • The Connectionist/Classical Debate [14]
  • Subsymbolic Computation [5]
  • Philosophy of Connectionism, Misc [20]
  • Philosophy of Connectionism, Foundational Empirical Issues [14]
• Special Topics in AI [93]
  
  • Cybernetics [0]
  • Dynamical Systems [34]
  • The Nature of AI [6]
  • The Frame Problem [10]
  • AI Methodology [17]
  • Robotics [22]
• Computationalism [84]
  
  • Computation and Physical Systems [34]
    
    • Computation and Physical Systems, Misc [0]
    • Analog and Digital Computation [5]
    • Computers [0]
    • Implementing Computations [0]
    • Noncomputable Processes [0]
    • Pancomputationalism [0]
    • Quantum Computation [2]
• Philosophy of AI, Miscellaneous [29]
  
  • Philosophy of AI, General Works [0]
  • Philosophy of AI, Misc [0]

Philosophy of Cognitive Science

• Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Miscellaneous [341]
  
  • Nativism in Cognitive Science [46]
    
    • Nativism in Cognitive Science, Misc [0]
  • Modularity in Cognitive Science [28]
  • Evolution of Cognition [53]
    
    • Evolutionary Psychology [27]
    • Evolution of Cognition, Misc [0]
  • Rationality and Cognitive Science [28]
  • Embodiment and Situated Cognition [41]
  • Animal Cognition [57]
    
    • Animal Language [2]
    • Animal Cognition, Misc [0]
  • Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science [5]
  • Explanation in Cognitive Science [5]
  • Representation in Cognitive Science [0]
  • Computationalism in Cognitive Science [46]
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Misc [32]
• Philosophy of Neuroscience [382]
  
  • Imaging and Localization [10]
  • Representation in Neuroscience [13]
  • Explanation in Neuroscience [12]
  • Neurophilosophy [13]
  • Philosophy of Neuroscience, Misc [32]
• Philosophy of Psychology [540]
  
  • Movements in Psychology [40]
    
    • Psychological Behaviorism [0]
    • Cognitivism in Psychology [0]
    • Movements in Psychology, Misc [0]
  • Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology [157]
    
    • The Nature of Folk Psychology [33]
    • The Theory Theory [13]
    • The Simulation Theory [40]
    • Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology, Misc [35]
    • Folk Concepts and Folk Intuitions [23]
  • Issues in Psychology [329]
    
    • Parapsychology [2]
    • Psychological Laws [12]
    • Psychological Explanation [12]
  • Philosophy of Psychology, Misc [13]
• Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology [112]
  
  • Delusions [17]
  • Other Mental Disorders [2]
  • Mental Illness [7]
  • Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis [53]
    
    • Psychoanalysis, Misc [0]
    • Psychotherapy [0]
    • Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Misc [0]
  • Psychopathology [15]
  • Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Misc [2]

Science of Consciousness

• Consciousness and Neuroscience [213]
  
  • Neurobiological Theories and Models of Consciousness [36]
  • Neural Correlates of Consciousness [21]
  • Cerebral Hemispheres and Consciousness [12]
  • Neural Timing and Consciousness [17]
  • Neural Synchrony and Binding [34]
  • Consciousness and Neuroscience, Foundational Issues [34]
  • Consciousness and Neuroscience, Misc [28]
• Consciousness and Biology [68]
  
  • Evolution of Consciousness [33]
  • Animal Consciousness [24]
  • Animal Self-Consciousness [8]
  • Consciousness and Biology, Misc [3]
• First-Person Approaches in the Science of Consciousness [94]
  
  • Introspection and Introspectionism [40]
  • Verbal Reports and Heterophenomenology [7]
  • Phenomenology and Consciousness [27]
  • Eastern Approaches to Consciousness [7]
  • First-Person Approaches in the Science of Consciousness, Misc [13]
• Science of Consciousness, Miscellaneous [70]
  
  • Consciousness and Language [12]
  • Parapsychology and Consciousness [19]
  • Science of Consciousness, Foundations [18]
  • Science of Consciousness, Misc [21]
• Science of Visual Consciousness [146]
  
  • Neural Correlates of Visual Consciousness [36]
  • Binocular Rivalry [20]
  • Visual Pathways [7]
  • Change/Inattentional Blindness [54]
  • Visual Imagery and Imagination [3]
  • Science of Visual Consciousness, Misc [26]
• Consciousness and Psychology [240]
  
  • Cognitive Models of Consciousness [47]
  • Attention and Consciousness in Psychology [37]
  • Metacognition and Consciousness [12]
  • Control and Consciousness [11]
  • Action and Consciousness in Psychology [25]
  • Emotion and Consciousness in Psychology [32]
  • Time and Consciousness in Psychology [5]
  • Self-Consciousness in Psychology [29]
  • Development of Consciousness [13]
  • The Stream of Consciousness [13]
  • Consciousness and Psychology, Foundational Issues [2]
  • Consciousness and Psychology, Misc [14]
• Unconscious and Conscious Processes [291]
  
  • Unconscious Perception [44]
  • Conscious and Unconscious Memory [109]
  • Conscious and Unconscious Learning [39]
  • Consciousness and Anesthesia [12]
  • Psychoanalysis and Consciousness [53]
  • Unconscious Processes, Misc [30]
• Disorders and Syndromes of Consciousness [128]
  
  • Blindsight [30]
  • Neglect and Extinction [16]
  • Schizophrenia [12]
  • Anosognosia [9]
  • The Minimally Conscious State [11]
  • Vegetative State and Coma [11]
  • Synesthesia [25]
  • Other Disorders and Syndromes [14]
• States of Consciousness [32]
  
  • Consciousness, Sleep, and Dreaming [10]
  • Hypnosis and Consciousness [8]
  • Meditation and Consciousness [7]
  • Drugs and Consciousness [2]
  • Other Altered States of Consciousness [3]
  • States of Consciousness, Misc [2]
• Consciousness and Physics [94]
  
  • Consciousness and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics [18]
  • Quantum Mechanisms of Consciousness [54]
  • Consciousness and Physics, Misc [16]