The methodological puzzle of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Is phenomenal consciousness constitutively related to cognitive access? Despite being a fundamental issue for any science of consciousness, its empirical study faces a severe methodological puzzle. Recent years have seen numerous attempts to address this puzzle, either in practice, by offering evidence for a positive or negative answer, or in principle,
Ian Phillips
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Phenomenal consciousness and cognitive access [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 In consciousness research, it is common to distinguish between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness. Recently, a number of scientists have attempted to show that phenomenal content can be empirically separated from cognitive access and, accordingly, that the mental content that is accessed is not (always) identical to the content that is ...
Morten Overgaard
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The Projective Consciousness Model and Phenomenal Selfhood [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 We summarize our recently introduced Projective Consciousness Model (PCM) (Rudrauf et al., 2017) and relate it to outstanding conceptual issues in the theory of consciousness.
Kenneth Williford +3 more
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Brentano on phenomenal and transitive consciousness, unconscious consciousness, and phenomenal intentionality [PDF]
European Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Angela Mendelovici
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Why and how access consciousness can account for phenomenal consciousness [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Lionel Naccache
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Reorganization of the connectivity between elementary functions as a common mechanism of phenomenal consciousness and working memory: from functions to strategies [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Jesper Mogensen, Morten Overgaard
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Consciousness and Topologically Structured Phenomenal Spaces
Consciousness and Cognition, 2019 There are strong reasons to believe that our conscious inner life is structured, suggested both by introspection as well as scientific psychology. One of the most salient structural characteristics of conscious experiences is known as unity of consciousness.
Robert Prentner
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Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and philosophers to advocate physicalist methods in explaining human nature ...
Samad Hosseini, Abbas Yazdani
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A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon. Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental
Nir Lahav +2 more
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Representationalism, skepticism and phenomenal realism
Prometeica, 2022 The irreducibility thesis of phenomenal consciousness can only succeed against the sceptical attack and avoid solipsism iff it can coherently establish the transition from subjective certainty to the objectivity of knowledge. The sceptical attack on the
Manas Kumar Sahu
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