The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

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Armstrong, David Malet: A MATERIALIST THEORY OF THE MIND (Humanities Press, 1968)

Armstrong, David Malet: THE NATURE OF MIND (Cornell Univ Press, 1981)

Armstrong, David Malet: THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM (Westview, 1999)

Bechtel William: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988)

Block, Ned: READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY (Harvard Univ Press, 1980)

Bonnet, Charles: ESSAI DE PSYCHOLOGIE (1754)

Brentano, Franz: PSYCHOLOGY FROM AN EMPIRICAL STANDPOINT (1874)

Broad, Charlie Dunbar: THE MIND AND ITS PLACE IN NATURE (1925)

Chalmers, David: THE CONSCIOUS MIND (Oxford University Press, 1996)

Chalmers, David: THE CHARACTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Chomsky, Noam: LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT (Moyer Bell, 1991)

Churchland, Paul: MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1984)

Clark, Andy: SUPERSIZING THE MIND (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Crane, Tim: THE MECHANICAL MIND (Penguin, 1995)

Davidson, Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1984)

Dennett, Daniel: CONTENT AND CONSCIOUSNESS (Routledge, 1969)

Dennett, Daniel: BRAINSTORMS (Bradford, 1978)

Dennett, Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

Descartes, Rene`: PRINCIPIA PHILOSOPHIAE (1644)

Dretske, Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)

Dretske, Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)

Dretske, Fred: NATURALIZING THE MIND (MIT Press, 1995)

Dretske, Fred: PERCEPTION, KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Eccles, John: EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN (Routledge, 1991)

Eccles, John & Popper, Karl: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer, 1977)

Feigl, Herbert: THE MENTAL AND THE PHYSICAL (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1967)

Fodor, Jerry: LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT (Crowell, 1975)

Fodor, Jerry: REPRESENTATIONS (MIT Press, 1981)

Fodor, Jerry: MODULARITY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1983)

Fodor, Jerry: THE ELM AND THE EXPERT (MIT Press, 1994)

Gardner, Howard: MIND'S NEW SCIENCE (Basic, 1985)

Gregory, Richard: OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND (Oxford, 1987)

Heidegger, Martin: BEING AND TIME (1962)

Honderich, Ted: ON CONSCIOUSNESS (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)

Hume, David: A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE (1739)

Husserl Edmund: LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS (1900)

Kim Jaegwon: SUPERVENIENCE AND MIND (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Kim, Jaegwon: MIND IN A PHYSICAL WORLD (MIT Press, 1998)

Leibniz, Gottfried: THE MONADOLOGY (1714)

Lewis, David K.: PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS (Oxford Press, 1983)

Lewis, David K.: ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS (Basil Blackwell, 1986)

Lycan, William: CONSCIOUSNESS (MIT Press, 1987)

Lycan, William: MIND AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1990)

Mach, Ernst: THE ANALYSIS OF SENSATIONS AND THE RELATION OF PHYSICAL TO THE PSYCHICAL (1886)

McGinn, Colin: CHARACTER OF MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)

Minsky, Marvin: The Society of Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Popper, Karl & Eccles John: THE SELF AND ITS BRAIN (Springer-Verlag, 1977)

Popper, Karl: KNOWLEDGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM (Routledge, 1994)

Priest, Stephen: THEORIES OF THE MIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

Putnam, Hilary: MIND, LANGUAGE AND REALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1975)

Quine, Willard: WORD AND OBJECT (1960)

Rosenthal, David: NATURE OF MIND (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Rucker, Rudy: INFINITY AND THE MIND (Birkhauser, 1982)

Russell, Bertrand: ANALYSIS OF MIND (1921)

Russell, Bertrand: ANALYSIS OF MATTER (Allen and Unwin, 1927)

Russell, Bertrand: AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH (Penguin, 1962)

Ryle, Gilbert: THE CONCEPT OF MIND (Hutchinson, 1949)

Searle, John: THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Sterelny, Kim: THE REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY OF MIND (Blackwell, 1990)

Stich, Stephen: FROM FOLK PSYCHOLOGY TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1983)

Stich, Stephen: DECONSTRUCTING THE MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1996)

Whitehead, Alfred: THE CONCEPT OF NATURE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1920)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (Macmillan, 1953)