Thomas Metzinger

“ConsciousneSS”

Selected Bibliography
1970 - 2001

This is a bibliography of books and articles on consciousness in philosophy, cognitive science, and neuroscience over the last 30 years. There are three main sections, devoted to monographs, edited collections of papers, and articles. The first two of these sections are each divided into three subsections containing books in each of the main areas of research. The third section is divided into 12 subsections, with 10 subject headings for philosophical articles along with two additional subsections for articles in cognitive science and neuroscience. Of course the division is somewhat arbitrary, but I hope that it makes the bibliography easier to use.

This bibliography has first been compiled by Thomas Metzinger and David Chalmers to appear in print in two philosophical anthologies on conscious experience (Metzinger 1995a, b). From 1995 onwards it has been continuously updated by Thomas Metzinger, and now is freely available as a PDF-, RTF-, or HTML-file from his personal homepage at http://www.philosophie.uni-mainz.de/metzinger/. Other formats are available upon request. This bibliography mainly attempts to cover the Anglo-Saxon and German debates, in a non-annotated, fully formatted way that makes it easy to “cut and paste” from the original file. To a certain degree this bibliography also contains items in other languages than English and German - all submissions in other languages are welcome. Please submit new entries, errata etc. to metzinger@uni-mainz.de. Last update of current version: July 13^th, 2001.

1. Monographs

1.1 Philosophy of Mind

Armstrong, D.M. & Malcolm, N. (1984). Consciousness and Causality. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Armstrong, D.M. (1981). The Nature of Mind. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Becker, A. (2000). Verstehen und Bewusstsein. Paderborn: mentis.

Campbell, K.K. (1970). Body and Mind. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.

Carruthers, P. (1996). Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Carruthers, P. (2000). Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Chalmers, D.J. (1996). The Conscious Mind. In Search of a Fundamental Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Churchland, P.M. (1984). Matter and Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Churchland, P.M. (1989). A Neurocomputational Perspective. The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Churchland, P.M. (1995). The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. German translation. (1997): Die Seelenmaschine. Eine philosophische Reise ins Gehirn. Heidelberg: Spektrum Verlag.

Churchland, P.S. (1986). Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Clark, A. (1992). Sensory Qualities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clark, A. (2000). A Theory of Sentience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cornman, J.W. (1971). Materialism and Sensations. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Culbertson, J.T. (1982). Consciousness: Natural and Artificial. Roslyn Heights, New York: Libra.

Davidson, D. (1993). Der Mythos des Subjektiven. Stuttgart: Reclam.

Dennett, D.C. (1978). Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dennett, D.C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Boston/Toronto/London: Little, Brown and Company. Deutsch: Descartes, Potemkin und die Büchse der Pandora - Eine neue Philosophie des menschlichen Bewußtseins. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe.

Dennett, D.C. (1996). Kinds of Minds. Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Dewart, L. (1989). Evolution and Consciousness: The Role of Speech in the Origin and Development of Human Nature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dretske, F. (1995). Naturalizing the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. German translation (1998): Naturalisierung des Geistes. Paderborn: mentis.

Ellis, R.D. (1986). An Ontology of Consciousness. Dordrecht: Kluwer/Martinus Nijhoff.

Evans, C.O. (1970). The Subject of Consciousness. London: George Allen & Unwin.

Fisette, D. (2000). Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Flanagan, O. (1984; 2nd edition 1991) The Science of the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Flanagan, O. (1992). Consciousness Reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Foster, J. (1991). The Immaterial Self: A Defense of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of Mind. London: Routledge.

Funke, G. (1990). Abdankung der Bewußtseinsphilosophie? Bonn: Bouvier.

Gennaro, R.J. (1996). Consciousness and Self-Consciousness: A Defense of the Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gloy, K. (1998). Bewußtseinstheorien. Zur Problematik und Problemgeschichte des Bewußtseins und Selbstbewußtseins. Freiburg: Alber.

Goodman, N. (1977). The Structure of Appearance. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

Gunderson, K. (1971). Mentality and Machines. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.

Haag, J. (2001). Der Blick nach innen – Wahrnehmung und Introspektion. Paderborn: mentis.

Hannay, A. (1990). Human Consciousness. London: Routledge.

Hardcastle, V.G. (1995). Locating Consciousness. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Hardin, C.L. (1988; expanded edition 1993). Color for Philosophers. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.

Harrison, B. (1973). Form and Content. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Hill, C.S. (1991). Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hinton, J. (1973). Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hodgson, D. (1991). The Mind Matters. Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hofstadter, D.R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books. German translation. (1981): Gödel, Escher, Bach: Ein Endloses, Geflochtenes Band. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Honderich, T. (1989). Mind and Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hurley, S.L. (1998). Consciousness in Action. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press.

Jackson, F.C. (1977). Perception: A Representative Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kim, J. (1993). Supervenience and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kirk, R. (1994). Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Landesman, C. (1989). Color and Consciousness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Lanz, P. (1996). Das phänomenale Bewußtsein: Eine Verteidigung. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.

Levin, M. (1979). Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Levine, J. (2001). Purple Haze – The Puzzle of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lockwood, M. (1989). Mind, Brain, and the Quantum. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lund, D.H. (1994). Perception, Mind, and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism. Lanham: University Press of America.

Lycan, W.G. (1987). Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lycan, W.G. (1996). Consciousness and Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Madell, G. (1988). Mind and Materialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Marbach, E. (1993). Mental Representation and Consciousness: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Representation and Reference. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Margolis, J. (1978). Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Non-Reductive Materialism. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

Marks, C. (1980). Commissurotomy, Consciousness, and the Unity of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Matson, W.I. (1976). Sentience. Berkeley: University of California Press.

McGinn, C. (1982). The Character of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McGinn, C. (1983). The Subjective View: Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McGinn, C. (1991). The Problem of Consciousness: Essays toward a Resolution. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

McGinn, C. (1999). The Mysterious Flame - Conscious Minds in a Material World. New York: Basic Books.

Messing, J. (1999). Allgemeine Theorie des Bewusstseins. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag.

Metzinger, T. (1985). Neuere Beiträge zur Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems. Frankfurt/Bern/New York: Peter Lang.

Metzinger, T. (1993). Subjekt und Selbstmodell. Die Perspektivität phänomenalen Bewußtseins vor dem Hintergrund einer naturalistischen Theorie mentaler Repräsentation. Paderborn: mentis.

Nagel, T. (1986). The View from Nowhere. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Deutsch. (1992): Der Blick von nirgendwo. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Nelkin, N. (1996). Consciousness and the Origins of Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nemirow, L. (1979). Functionalism and the Subjective Quality of Experience. Dissertation, Stanford University: University Microfilms International.

Nida-Rümelin, M. (1993). Farben und phänomenales Wissen. St. Augustin: Academia.

Papineau, D. (1993). Philosophical Naturalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Parfit, D. (1984). Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pauen, M. (1999). Das Rätsel des Bewußtseins. Eine Erklärungstrategie. Paderborn: mentis.

Peacocke, C. (1983). Sense and Content: Experience, Thought, and their Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Penrose, R. (1989). The Emperor's New Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Deutsch. (1991): Computerdenken. Des Kaiser neue Kleider oder Die Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz, Bewußtsein und die Gesetze der Physik. Heidelberg: Spektrum Verlag.

Penrose, R. (1994). Shadows of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Deutsch. (1995): Schatten des Geistes. Heidelberg: Spektrum Verlag.

Pohlenz, G. (1994). Phänomenale Realität und Erkenntnis: Umrisse einer Theorie im Ausgang von der eigentümlichen Natur des Qualia-Begriffs. Freiburg: Alber.

Poland, J. (1994). Physicalism: The Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Popper, K.R. (1994). Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction. London: Routledge.

Radner, D. & Radner, M. (1989). Animal Consciousness. Buffalo: Prometheus.

Revonsuo, A. (1995). On the Nature of Consciousness: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations. Turku: Turun Yliopisto.

Robinson, H. (1982). Matter and Sense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Robinson, W.S. (1988). Brains and People: An Essay on Mentality and its Causal Conditions. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Rosenthal, D.M. (2002). Consciousness and Mind. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Rossman, N. (1991). Consciousness: Separation and Integration. Albany: SUNY Press.

Schleichert, H. (1992). Der Begriff des Bewußtseins. Eine Bedeutungsanalyse. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.

Schlimgen, E. (1999). Nietzsches Theorie des Bewußtseins. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.

Seager, W.E. (1992). Metaphysics of Consciousness. London: Routledge.

Searle, J. (1997). The Mystery of Consciousness. New York/London: Granta Books.

Searle, J.R. (1984). Minds, Brains and Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Searle, J.R. (1992). The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. German translation. (1996): Die Wiederentdeckung des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Shoemaker, S. (1984). Identity, Cause, and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Shoemaker, S. (1996). The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Siewert, C.E. (1998). The Significance of Consciousness. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sommerhoff, G. (1991). Life, Brain, and Consciousness. Amsterdam: Elsevier

Strawson, G. (1994). Mental Reality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stubenberg, L. (1998). Consciousness and Qualia. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Tetens, H. (1994). Geist, Gehirn, Maschine. Philosophische Versuche über ihren Zusammenhang. Stuttgart: Reclam (8999).

Tye, M. (1991). The Imagery Debate. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Tye, M. (1995). Ten Problems of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Tye, M. (2000). Consciousness, Color, and Content. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Unger, P. (1990). Identity, Consciousness and Value. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Valberg, J.J. (1992). The Puzzle of Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Varela, F.J., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. German translation. (1992): Der Mittlere Weg der Erkenntnis. Der Brückenschlag zwischen wissenschaftlicher Theorie un menschlicher Erfahrung. München: Scherz.

Werth, R. (1983). Bewußtsein - Psychologische, neurobiologische und wissenschaftstheoretische Aspekte. Berlin: Springer.

Wilkes, K.V. (1978). Physicalism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Wilkes, K.V. (1988). Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wyss, D. (1988). Traumbewußtsein? Grundzüge einer Ontologie des Traumbewußtseins. Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht.

1.2 Selected Readings: Cognitive Science & Psychology

Ackerman, D. (1990). A Natural History of the Senses. Randhom House.

Austin, J.H. (1998). Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Baars, B.J. (1988). A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Baars, B.J. (1997). In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bassin, F.W. (1970). Bewußtsein und Unbewußtes. Leipzig: Hirzel.

Chafe, W.L. (1994). Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. University of Chicago Press.

Czikzsentmihalyi, M. & Czikzsentmihalyi, I.S. (1988). Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dawkins, M.S. (1993). Through our Eyes only. The Search for Animal Consciousness. Oxford, NY, Heidelberg: Freeman/Spektrum Verlag.

Dittrich, A. (1985). Ätiologie-unabhängige Strukturen veränderter Wachbewußtseinszustände. Stuttgart: Enke.

Ellis, R.D. (1995). Questioning Consciousness: The Interplay of Imagery, Cognition, and Emotion in the Human Brain. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Farthing, G.W. (1992). The Psychology of Consciousness. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Gadenne, V. & Oswald, M.E. (1991). Kognition und Bewußtsein. Berlin: Springer.

Gadenne, V. (1996). Bewußtsein, Kognition und Gehirn: Einführung in die Psychologie des Bewußtseins. Bern: Hans Huber.

Green, C. & McGreery, C. (1994). Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep. London: Routledge.

Harth, E. (1993). The Creative Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind. Addison-Wesley.

Hilgard, E.R. (1977). Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action. New York: Wiley. Expanded edition published 1986.

Holzinger, B. (1994). Der luzide Traum: Phänomenologie und Physiologie. Wien: Wiener Universitätsverlag.

Humphrey, N. (1984). Consciousness Regained. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Humphrey, N. (1992). A History of the Mind. Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness. New York: Simon and Schuster. Deutsch. (1995): Die Naturgeschichte des Ich. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe.

Ihde, D. (1977). Experimental Phenomenology. New York: Putnam.

Jackendoff, R. (1987). Consciousness and the Computational Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jouvet, M. (1994). Die Nachtseite des Bewußtseins. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt.

Klatzky, R.L. (1984). Memory and Awareness. New York: Freeman. German translation. (1989): Gedächtnis und Bewußtsein. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Klein, D.B. (1984). The Concept of Consciousness: A Survey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Kosslyn, S.M. (1980). Image and Mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kosslyn, S.M. (1994). Image and Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kunzendorf, R.G. & Wallace, B. (1999). Individual Differences in Conscious Experience. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kurthen, M. (1990). Das Problem des Bewußtseins in der Kognitionswissenschaft - Perspektiven einer Kognitiven Neurowissenschaft. Stuttgart: Enke.

Kurthen, M. (1992). Neurosemantik. Grundlagen einer Praxiologischen Kognitiven Neurowissenschaft. Stuttgart: Enke.

Kurthen, M. (1994). Hermeneutische Kognitionswissenschaft. Bonn: djre-Verlag.

LaBerge, S. (1985). Lucid Dreaming. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher.

Levicki, P. (1986). Nonconscious Social Information Processing. New York: Academic Press.

Lyons, W. (1986). The Disappearance of Introspection. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mack, A. & Rock, I. (1998). Inattentional Blindness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Marton, F. & Booth, S.A. (1997). Learning and Awareness. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Morris, P. & Hampson, P.J. (1983). Imagery and Consciousness. London and New York: Academic Press.

Mueller, E. T. (1990). Daydreaming in Humans and Machines: A Computer Model of the Stream of Thought. Ablex.

Nelson, T. O. (1992). Metacognition: Core Readings. Allyn and Bacon.

Norretranders, T. (1991). The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. Viking Penguin.

Norretranders, T. (1994). Spüre die Welt. Die Wissenschaft des Bewußtseins. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt.

Ornstein, R. (1977). The Psychology of Consciousness. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch.

Ornstein, R. (1991). The Evolution of Consciousness: Of Darwin, Freud, and Cranial Fire: The Origins of the Way We Think. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Ramachandran, V.S. & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the Brain. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Rollin, B.E. (1989). The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rosenfield, I. (1992). The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness. London: Picador. German translation. (1992): Das Fremde, das Vertraute und das Vergessene. Anatomie des Bewußtseins. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer.

Rychlak, J.F. (1997). In Defense of Human Consciousness. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Schurig, V. (1976). Die Entstehung des Bewußtseins. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Scott, A. (1995). Stairway to the Mind. The Controversial New Science of Consciousness. New York & Berlin: Springer.

Shevrin, H., Bond, J.A. Brakel, L.A. W, Hertel, R.K. & Williams, W.J. (1996). Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Convergences. New York: Guilford.

Smythies, J.R. (1994). The Walls of Plato’s Cave. The Science and Philosophy of Brain, Consciousness and Perception. Aldershot: Aversbury.

Taylor, J.G. (1998). The Race for Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Umilta, C. & Moscovitch, M. (1994). Attention and Performance 15, Conscious and Nonconscious Information Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Velmans, M. (1999). Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness: Methodologies and Maps. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Wolman, B.B. & Ullman, U. (1986). Handbook of States of Consciousness. van Nostrand Reinhold.

1.3 Selected Readings: Neurosciences

Abeles, M. (1991). Corticonics: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Amsterdam : Elsevier North Holland.

Bachmann, T. (1994). Psychophysiology of Visual Masking. The Fine Structure of Conscious Experience. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Brown, J. (1991). Self and Process. Brain-states and the Conscious Present. New York: Springer.

Calvin, W. (1990). The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness. Bantam. German translation. (1993): Die Symphonie des Denkens - Wie aus Neuronen Bewußtsein entsteht. München: Carl Hanser.

Changeux, J.P. (1985). Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind. New York: Pantheon Books.