• The Causal Efficacy of Phenomenal Consciousness
    Dissertation, University of Kansas. 2002.
    This study attempts to show how our phenomenally conscious states can causally affect those physical behaviors for which we normally say we chose to behave in that way---our choice behaviors. After identifying phenomenal character with its being like something to have an experience, it is first argued that phenomenal states should not be understood in terms of our awareness of them but rather as being, for the most part, awarenesses of the outer or inner environment. It is then argued that our e…Read more