- Preface
- Précis
- 1. The Problem of Conscious Experience
- 1A. Logical and Naturalist Inquiries
- 1B. Skepticism and Russell’s Acquaintance Model of Experience
- 2. A Coherence Theory of Perceptual Judgments
- 2A. Sellars’s Theory of Experience
- 2B. Sellars on the Reasonableness of Perceptual Judgments
- 2C. Critical Observations I
- 2D. Critical Observations II
- 3. Simple Theories of Perceptual Judgments
- 3A. Characterization of Simple Theories
- 3B. Simple Relational Theories
- 3C. Simple Informational Theories
- 3D. Simple Intentional Theories
- 3E. Problems with the Simple Given
- 4. The Hypothetical Given
- 4A. Rational Transitions
- 4B. General Remarks on Logical Interdependence
- 4C. On Convergence
- 4D. Logical Interdependence and Holism
- 5. Presentation and the Transparency of Experience
- 5A. Presentation without Acquaintance
- 5B. Moore on the Transparency of Experience
- 5C. Mind-Independence and Externality
- 5D. Phenomenology and Introspection
- 6. Appearances
- 6A. Subjective Identity and Appearances
- 6B. Illusions and Hallucinations
- 6C. Intentionalist Objections
- 7. The Role of Appearances in Cognition
- 7A. The Equivalence Principle
- 7B. Connotation and Denotation
- 7C. The Skeptical Meditation
- 7D. Summary of the Account of Experience
- 8. Experience and Concept
- 8A. Historical Introduction
- 8B. Ostensive Definition: Denotation
- 8C. Ostensive Definition: Connotation, Symbol, Concept
- 8D. Conceptual Criticism
- 9. Empirical Transformations
- 9A. Ontology, Logical and Proper
- 9B. Specks, Images, Clouds
- 9C. Conceptions of Color
- 9D. A Sketch of the Dialectical Situation
- 10. Empirical Dialectic and Empirical Proofs
- 10A. Empirical and Mathematical Dialectic Compared
- 10B. Some Features of Empirical Proofs
- 10C. Compelling Empirical Proofs
- 11. The General Logic of Empirical Dialectic
- 11A. Rationality and Dialectical Power
- 11B. Ur-Convergence
- 11C. Summary of the Main Features of Empirical Dialectic
- 12. Physicalism from the Logical Point of View
- 12A. Kripke’s Argument against Mental-Physical Identity
- 12B. Types of Physicalism
- 12C. Physicalism within the Bounds of Reason
- References
- Index


Conscious Experience
A Logical Inquiry
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