Morgan Wallhagen

Stanford Online High School
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    Consciousness and Action: Does Cognitive Science Support (Mild) Epiphenomenalism?
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (3): 539-561. 2007.
    Questions about the function of consciousness have long been central to discussions of consciousness in philosophy and psychology. Intuitively, consciousness has an important role to play in the control of many everyday behaviors. However, this view has recently come under attack. In particular, it is becoming increasingly common for scientists and philosophers to argue that a significant body of data emerging from cognitive science shows that conscious states are not involved in the control of …Read more
  • Attention to Consciousness
    Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. 2004.
    The notion of consciousness, though central to contemporary philosophy of mind, is not well understood. This fact vitiates many recent attempts to develop a theory of consciousness. I aim to achieve a deeper understanding of consciousness by considering what it is that distinguishes conscious mental phenomena from non-conscious mental phenomena. I argue that, contrary to widespread opinion, consciousness is not a matter of a mental state's possessing phenomenality. Nor is it simply a matter of a…Read more