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88Causation and laws of natureIn John Shand (ed.), Central Issues in Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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1064Time in experience: Reply to GallagherPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 9. 2003.Consciousness exists in time, but time is also to be found within consciousness: we are directly aware of both persistence and change, at least over short intervals. On reflection this can seem baffling. How is it possible for us to be immediately aware of phenomena which are not (strictly speaking) present? What must consciousness be like for this to be possible? In "Stream of Consciousness" I argued that influential accounts of phenomenal temporality along the lines developed by Broad and Huss…Read more
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202Sensing changePhilosophical Issues 18 (1): 362-384. 2008.We can anticipate what is yet to happen, remember what has already happened, but our immediate experience is confined to the present, the here and now. So much seems common sense. So much so that it is no surprise to see Thomas Reid, that pre-eminent champion of common sense in philosophy, advocating precisely this position
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657Precis: Stream of ConsciousnessPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 10. 2004.That our ordinary everyday experience exhibits both unity and continuity is uncontroversial, and on the face of it utterly unmysterious. At any moment we have some conscious awareness of both the world about us, as revealed through our perceptual experiences, and our own inner states – our bodily sensations, thoughts, mental images and so on. Since once wakened we tend to stay awake for several hours, tracing out continuous routes through whatever environment we happen to find ourselves in, it i…Read more
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70From Phenomenal Selves to HyperselvesRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 76 161-197. 2015.The claim that we are subjects of experience, i.e. beings whose nature is intimately bound up with consciousness, is in many ways a plausible one. There is, however, more than one way of developing a metaphysical account of the nature of subjects. The view that subjects are essentially conscious has the unfortunate consequence that subjects cannot survive periods of unconsciousness. A more appealing alternative is to hold that subjects are beings with the capacity to be conscious, a capacity whi…Read more
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963Unity and introspectibility: Reply to GilmorePSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 10. 2004.Gilmore concentrates on two arguments which I took to undermine the claim that introspectibility is necessary for co-consciousness: the.
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314In ordinary conscious experience, consciousness of time seems to be ubiquitous. For example, we seem to be directly aware of change, movement, and succession across brief temporal intervals. How is this possible? Many different models of temporal consciousness have been proposed. Some philosophers have argued that consciousness is confined to a momentary interval and that we are not in fact directly aware of change. Others have argued that although consciousness itself is momentary, we are never…Read more
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The Nature and Identity of the SelfDissertation, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). 1989.Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires signed TDF. ;We are mental beings whose identity is absolute, intrinsic and real. This conception of the self, which, it is argued, corresponds to our deeper beliefs about, and attitudes towards, ourselves and others, is a consequence of taking the experienced unity and continuity of consciousness as the key to self-identity. Some of the difficulties often taken as fatal to this "subjectivist" view of the self, considerations c…Read more
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338_Stream of Consciousness_ is about the phenomenology of conscious experience. Barry Dainton shows us that stream of consciousness is not a mosaic of discrete fragments of experience, but rather an interconnected flowing whole. Through a deep probing into the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space and time consciousness, Dainton offers a truly original understanding of the nature of consciousness
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171Review of Consciousness and its Place in Nature (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (1): 238-261. 2011.
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89Review: Dan Zahavi: Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective (review)Mind 117 (465): 241-245. 2008.
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1093Unity in the void: Reply to RevonsuoPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 10. 2004.While agreeing with me on many issues, Revonsuo rejects my claim that phenomenal states could be co-conscious without being spatially related (in experience). In defence of my claim I described a thought-experiment in which
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405The experience of time and changePhilosophy Compass 3 (4): 619-638. 2008.Can we directly experience change? Although some philosophers have denied it, the phenomenological evidence is unambiguous: we can, and do. But how is this possible? What structures or features of consciousness render such experience possible? A variety of very different answers to this question have been proposed, answers which have very different implications for the nature of consciousness itself. In this brief survey no attempt is made to engage with the often complex (and sometimes obscure)…Read more
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154The subject in question—Sartre's critique of Husserl in the transcendence of the ego (review)Mind 111 (442): 473-478. 2002.
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