Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.

Notes on Contributors x Introduction xix Part I The Problems of Consciousness 1 1 A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness 3Chris D. Frith and Geraint Rees 2 Philosophical Problems of Consciousness 17Michael Tye 3 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 32David Chalmers Part II The Origins and Distribution of Consciousness 43 4 Consciousness in Infants 45Colwyn Trevarthen and Vasudevi Reddy 5 Animal Consciousness 63Colin Allen and Michael Trestman 6 Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness 77Thomas W. Polger 7 Machine Consciousness 93Igor Aleksander 8 Panpsychism 106Philip Goff Part III Some Varieties of Conscious Experience 125 9 States of Consciousness: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming 127J. Allan Hobson 10 Affective Consciousness 141Jaak Panksepp 11 Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences 157Richard P. Bentall 12 Altered States of Consciousness: Drug]Induced States 171David E. Presti 13 Anomalous Experiences 187Etzel Cardeña 14 Mindfulness 203Peter Malinowski 15 Altered States: Mysticism 217David Fontana Part IV Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness 227 16 The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Predictions and Results 229Bernard J. Baars 17 The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: An Outline 243Giulio Tononi 18 The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness 257Jesse Prinz 19 Representationalism about Consciousness 272William Seager and David Bourget 20 Higher]Order Theories of Consciousness 288Peter Carruthers 21 Quantum Approaches to Brain and Mind: An Overview with Representative Examples 298Harald Atmanspacher 22 Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness 314Susan Schneider 23 Biological Naturalism 327John Searle 24 Emergentism 337Gerald Vision 25 Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism 349Max Velmans 26 Naturalistic Dualism 363David Chalmers 27 Physicalist Panpsychism 374Galen Strawson Part V Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness 391 28 Anti]materialist Arguments and Influential Replies 393Joe Levine 29 Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument 404Torin Alter 30 Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness 415Brian P. Mclaughlin 31 Functionalism and Qualia 430Robert Van Gulick 32 The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness 445Jaegwon Kim 33 The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness 458Pete Mandik 34 Self]Consciousness 472José Luis Bermúdez 35 Philosophical Psychopathology and Self]Consciousness 484G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham 36 Coming Together: The Unity of Consciousness 500Barry Dainton 37 Consciousness and Intentionality 519George Graham, Terence Horgan, and John Tienson Part VI Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness 537 Topics in the Cognitive Psychology of Consciousness 38 Studying Consciousness Through Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, and the Attentional Blink 539Michael A. Cohen and Marvin M. Chun 39 Conscious and Unconscious Perception 551Sid Kouider and Nathan Faivre 40 Conscious and Unconscious Memory 562John F. Kihlstrom, Jennifer Dorfman, and Lillian Park 41 Consciousness of Action 576Marc Jeannerod Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness 589 42 Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness 591Geraint Rees and Chris D. Frith 43 Conscious Processing: Unity in Time Rather Than in Space 607Wolf Singer 44 Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Some Ontological Considerations 621Giulio Tononi 45 Split]brain Cases 634Mary (Molly) Colvin, Nicole L. Marinsek, Michael B. Miller, and Michael S. Gazzaniga 46 Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action 648Melvyn A. Goodale 47 Altered States of Consciousness after Brain Injury 662Johan Stender, Steven Laureys, and Olivia Gosseries 48 Anesthesia and Consciousness 682John F. Kihlstrom and Randall C. Cork 49 The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition: First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 695Aaron Schurger First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness 711 50 Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness 713Shaun Gallagher 51 Neurophenomenology and the Micro]phenomenological Interview 726Michel Bitbol and Claire Petitmengin 52 Descriptive Experience Sampling 740Russell T. Hurlburt 53 Experiential Neuroscience of Pain 754Donald D. Price 54 An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness 769Max Velmans Resources for Students 785 Index 788

Featuring many important updates and revisions, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today. Chapters delve deeply into the wide variety of scientific and philosophical problems that arise from the study of consciousness—as well as the philosophical, cognitive, neuroscientific, and phenomenological approaches to solving them. Along with updates to existing scientific readings reflecting the latest research and data, this edition features 18 entirely new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering such areas as integrated information theory, the resurgence in panpsychism, the renewed interest in more sophisticated first-person methodologies for the investigation of conscious phenomenology, and many others. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the study of consciousness, from across a variety of academic disciplines, the 54-chapter collection reasserts its role as the most authoritative and up-to-date volume on the subject. Illuminating and thought-provoking, The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for those wishing to gain insight into the latest contemporary thinking on consciousness.