What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that
consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief …

Recent work on consciousness has featured a number of debates on the existence and
character of controversial types of phenomenal experience. Perhaps the best-known is the …

Intentionality is the mind's ability to be" of,"" about," or" directed" at things, or to" say"
something. For example, a thought might" say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is …

To say you are in a state that is (phenomenally) conscious is to say—on a certain
understanding of these terms—that you have an experience, or a state there is something it's …

Phenomenal intentionality is a kind of intentionality, or aboutness, that is grounded in
phenomenal consciousness, the subjective, experiential feature of certain mental states. The …

" This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions
surrounding machine learning as an approach to artificial intelligence. Specifically, it links …

What is the relationship between attention and consciousness? Is there attention without
consciousness? Is there consciousness without attention? Or are attention and …

This is the first in a series of two articles that serve as an introduction to recent debates about
cognitive phenomenology. Cognitive phenomenology can be defined as the experience that …

For much of the last century, phenomenal consciousness occupied a curious status within
philosophy of mind: it was central in some ways and yet peripheral in others. On the one …

According to the old feeling theory of emotion, an emotion is just a feeling: a conscious
experience with a characteristic phenomenal character. This theory is widely dismissed in …