The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (Oxford Handbooks)

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Edited by Uriah Kriegel
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness
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Tim Bayne

completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of
Otago (New Zealand), and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He has taught at
Macquarie University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Manchester, and the
University of Oxford. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne
Australia. He is an editor of The Oxford Companion to Consciousness and the author of The
Unity of Consciousness (Oxford 2010), Thought: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2013), and
Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2018).
David Bourget

is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Digital Philosophy at the
University of Western Ontario. He has written numerous articles on the nature of consciousness

and its place in the mind. He also manages major services and projects that advance
philosophical research through technology, such as PhilPapers.org.

Berit ‘Brit’ Brogaard

is Professor of Philosophy at University of Miami. Her areas of research include philosophy of
mind, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. She is the author of the books Transient

Truths (Oxford 2012), On Romantic Love (Oxford 2015), The Superhuman Mind (Penguin
2015), and Seeing and Saying (Oxford 2018).

Philippe Chuard

is associate professor of philosophy at SMU in Dallas (Texas). He has published articles in the
philosophy of perception (nonconceptual content, phenomenal sorites) and in epistemology. His
current research is on the nature of temporal experience, working on a book entitled The
Temporal Mind: A Philosophical Introduction, as well as another book defending the snapshot
conception of temporal experiences.

Elijah Chudnoff

is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Miami. He has written papers and books
exploring the role of conscious experience in both a priori and empirical inquiry. He is currently
working on a book about expertise.

Sam Coleman
is reader in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire.

Julien Deonna

is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at the Swiss

Centre in Affective Sciences.

Brie Gertler

is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on
epistemic and metaphysical questions about the mind. She is the author of Self-Knowledge

(Routledge 2011), as well as numerous articles on self-knowledge, dualism, mental content, and
the self.

(p. x) Philip Goff

is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. His work is focused on how to
integrate consciousness into our scientific worldview, and he defends panpsychism on the
grounds that it avoids the difficulties faced by the more traditional options of physicalism and
dualism. He has published an academic book on this topic – Consciousness and Fundamental

Reality (Oxford 2017) – as well as a book aimed at a general audience – Galileo’s Error:
Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Rider in UK, Pantheon in US). Goff has also
published in newspapers and magazines, such the Guardian, Scientific American, the Times
Literary Supplement and Philosophy Now.

Christopher S. Hill

is William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Hill has written
numerous articles and four books: Sensations (Cambridge), Thought and World (Cambridge),
Consciousness (Cambridge), and Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge (Oxford). He has also edited
several collections, most recently joining with Brian McLaughlin to edit New Essays in the
Philosophy of Perception (Philosophical Topics, Volume 44, Issue 2).

Elizabeth Irvine

is lecturer in philosophy at Cardiff University. Her research interests are primarily in philosophy
of cognitive science and psychology, and philosophy of science. She has published in journals

such as Mind and Language, Synthese, and won the 2016 Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize for an
article published in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Frank Jackson

is an emeritus professor at The Australian National University. His books include Conditionals,

From Metaphysics to Ethics, and Language, Names, and Information.

Amy Kind

is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. Her research
interests lie broadly in the philosophy of mind, but most of her work centers on issues relating to
imagination and to phenomenal consciousness. In addition to authoring the introductory
textbook Persons and Personal Identity (Polity 2015), she has edited The Routledge Handbook
of Philosophy of Imagination (Routledge 2016) and Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Centuries (Routledge 2018), and she has co-edited Knowledge through Imagination
(Oxford 2016).

Benjamin Kozuch

received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Arizona in 2013, and is now
assistant professor at the University of Alabama. Much of his research involves using
neuroscientific data to evaluate philosophical theories of consciousness. He also conducts
research regarding visual illusions, and the nature of pain experiences. Before coming to
philosophy, Benjamin was a freelance bassist in New Orleans, and he currently competitively
mountain bikes.

Uriah Kriegel

is the author of many articles on consciousness, as well as four books: Subjective
Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (Oxford 2009), The Sources of Intentionality

(Oxford 2011), The Varieties of Consciousness (Oxford 2015), and Brentano’s Philosophical
System: Mind, Being, Value (Oxford 2018).

(p. xi) Hakwan Lau

is associate professor at Hong Kong University, and a member of the State Key Laboratory for
Brain & Cognitive Science (HKU). He also holds a tenured position at UCLA, where he directs
a laboratory funded partly by the US National Institute of Health.

Joseph Levine

is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his PhD
from Harvard in 1981 and has taught at N.C. State University and the Ohio State University. He
works in philosophy of mind, with a focus on the problem of consciousness. He published
Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness in 2001, and in 2018 a collection of his papers
entitled Quality and Content: Essays on Representation, Consciousness, and Modality.

Neil Levy

is professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a senior researcher at the
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He is the author of seven books,
including, most recently, Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford 2014).

Tom McClelland

is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He works in various topics in philosophy of mind,
including mental action, cognitive phenomenology, perceptual content, and the explanatory gap.
He also dabbles in philosophy of film.

Farid Masrour

is Vilas Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Madison-Wisconsin. His primary
area of research is philosophy of mind, epistemology, and Kant’s theoretical philosophy. He is
currently working on a Kant-inspired book on perception.

Angela Mendelovici

is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She works in
philosophy of mind, focusing on consciousness, intentionality, and the relationship between
consciousness and intentionality. Her recent book, The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality,
argues for a version of the phenomenal intentionality theory, on which all intentionality
ultimately derives from phenomenal consciousness.

Christopher Mole

teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he is also

the chair of the Programme in Cognitive Systems.
Jorge Morales

is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at Johns
Hopkins University. His research lies on the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive
science. In philosophy, he works on consciousness and introspection. In his research in
cognitive neuroscience, he studies the psychological and neural mechanisms of metacognition,
consciousness, perception, and attention.

Myrto Mylopoulos

is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Cognitive Science at
Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include the phenomenology of
agency, action control, skill, consciousness, and self-control.

(p. xii) Casey O’Callaghan

is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St Louis. He is author of Sounds (Oxford
2007), Beyond Vision (Oxford 2017), and A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception (Oxford
2019).

David Papineau

is professor of philosophy of science at King’s College London and distinguished professor of
philosophy at the City University of New York. He has served as president of the Aristotelian
Society, the Mind Association, and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. His most
recent books are Thinking About Consciousness (Oxford 2003), Philosophical Devices (Oxford
2012) and Knowing the Score (Little Brown 2017).

Adam Pautz
is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University specializing in philosophy of mind and
metaphysics. He has recently been pursuing a ‘consciousness-first’ program in the philosophy of
mind. His book Perception is forthcoming with Routledge.

Michael Pelczar

is associate professor of philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His main interests
are in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. He is the author of
Sensorama: A Phenomenalist Analysis of Spacetime and Its Contents (Oxford 2015).

Mark Rowlands

(D.Phil., Oxford University) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the
author of nineteen books, translated into more than twenty languages, and over a hundred

journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, which incorporate interests in the philosophy of
mind, ethics, moral psychology, and phenomenology.

Joshua Shepherd

is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Carleton University. He is also a research
professor at the University of Barcelona, where he is the principal investigator on the project
Rethinking Conscious Agency. In the past he has been a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a junior research fellow at Jesus College,
Oxford.

Maja Spener

is lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK). She is