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Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness.
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Editorial Board David Chalmers
Earl Mac Cormac
University of Arizona
Duke University
Gordon G. Globus
George Mandler
University of California at Irvine
University of California at San Diego
Ray Jackendoff
John R. Searle
Brandeis University
University of California at Berkeley
Christof Koch
Petra Stoerig
California Institute of Technology
Universität Düsseldorf
Stephen Kosslyn
† Francisco Varela
Harvard University
C.R.E.A., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Volume 56 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness An Anthology
Edited by
Rocco J. Gennaro Indiana State University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Higher-order theories of consciousness : an anthology / edited by Rocco J. Gennaro. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 56) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Consciousness. 2. Self-consciousness. 3. Thought and thinking. 4. Phenomenological psychology. I. Gennaro, Rocco J. II. Series. B105 C477H54 2004 126-dc22 isbn 90 272 5191 6 (Eur.) / 1 58811 495 3 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 90 272 5192 4 (Eur.) / 1 58811 496 1 (US) (Pb; alk. paper)
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Table of contents
Contributors
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Acknowledgments and dedication
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Chapter 1 Higher-order theories of consciousness: An overview Rocco J. Gennaro
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Part I: Defenders of higher-order theories
Chapter 2 Varieties of higher-order theory David M. Rosenthal Chapter 3 Higher-order thoughts, animal consciousness, and misrepresentation: A reply to Carruthers and Levine Rocco J. Gennaro Chapter 4 Higher-order global states (HOGS): An alternative higher-order model of consciousness Robert Van Gulick
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Chapter 5 The superiority of HOP to HOT William G. Lycan
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Chapter 6 HOP over FOR, HOT theory Peter Carruthers
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Chapter 7 A higher order syntactic thought (HOST) theory of consciousness Edmund T. Rolls
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Chapter 8 Assumptions of a subjective measure of consciousness: Thr