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Journal of Consciousness Studies

How does the mind relate to the brain?

Can computers ever be conscious?

What do we mean by subjectivity and the self?

These questions are being keenly debated in fields as diverse as cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy. JCS is a peer-reviewed journal which examines these issues in plain English.

Over the last few years, research into consciousness has at last become accepted within the academic community. As John Searle puts it, raising the subject of consciousness in cognitive science discussions is no longer considered to be ``bad taste'', causing graduate students to ``roll their eyes at the ceiling and assume expressions of mild disgust.'' But why are we interested in consciousness? Most people are interested not just because of the academic and interdisciplinary challenges, but because of their personal experience - we have consciousness, we experience it; perhaps we even think that we ``are'' it. But, if we are to make progress in studying consciousness, we will have to think about it very clearly, and engage in serious constructive dialogues between a variety of viewpoints. And that is the purpose of this journal. The field of consciousness studies is at a very early stage, characterized by crude theories, most of which are unlikely to stand the test of time. We prefer a broad, diverse and open conceptualization - including political consciousness, and ecological consciousness (for example in the sense of Bateson's ``ecology of mind''), but we do not wish to define for our authors exactly what any of these terms mean. We seek to provoke a spirited debate by actively seeking serious opposing views, for example from cognitive science, biology and philosophy. The Journal of Consciousness Studies covers this broad field by:

• Presenting serious peer-reviewed scientific and humanistic papers in non-technical language
• Including philosophical critiques of contemporary research
• Considering submissions from all disciplines and viewpoints
• Encouraging a robust and lively debate on the full range of issues involved
• A good mix of submitted papers and special issues

• Robert Forman, A Watershed Event: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality Conference (Vol.15, No.8)
• Brian Earl, What Does the Evidence Tell Us about the Biological Value of Consciousness? (Vol.15, No.7)
• Jordan Zlatev, The Dialectics of Consciousness and Language (Vol.15, No.6)
• Ulrich Mohrhoff, Indian Psychology's Coming of Age (Vol.15, No.5)
• Ed Subitsky, The Experiment (Vol.15, No.4)
• Book Reviews (Vol.15, No.3)
• Book Reviews (Vol.15, No.2)
• Andy Ross, Honderich and McGinn (Vol.15, No.1)
• Jonathan Edelmann & William Bernet, Setting Criteria for Ideal Reincarnation Research (Vol.14, No.12)
• William I. Thompson, Natural Drift and the Evolution of Culture (Vol.14, No.11)
• Rocco J. Gennaro, Consciousness and Concepts: An Introductory Essay (Vol.14, No.9-10)
• Stuart Hameroff, The Good, the Bad and the Octopus Conference Report on ASSC 11, 2007 (Vol.14, No.8)
• Robert Clowes, Steve Torrance & Ron Chrisley, Machine Consciousness: Embodiment and Imagination (Vol.14, No.7)
• Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen, Dimensions of Personhood (Vol.14, No.5-6)
• Book Reviews (Vol.14, No.4)
• Book Reviews (Vol.14, No.3)
• J. Scott Jordan & Dawn M. McBride, Concepts of Consciousness (Vol.14, No.1-2)
• Zoltan L. Torey, The Immaculate Misconception (Vol.13, No.12)
• Anthony Freeman, Editorial Preface (Vol.13, No.10-11)
• Ed Subitzky, The Voyage (Vol.13, No.9)
• Anthony Freeman, Editorial Preface (Vol.13, No.7-8)
• Claude Pasquini, ASSC10 (Vol.13, No.6)
• Mary Midgley, Editorial Introduction (Vol.13, No.5)
• Bill Faw, Are We Studying Consciousness Yet? Tucson 2006 (Vol.13, No.4)
• Anthony Freeman, A Daniel Come to Judgement? Dennett and the Revisioning of Transpersonal Theory (Vol.13, No.3)
• Michael Pauen, Alexander Staudacher and Sven Walter, Epiphenomenalism: Dead End or Way Out? (Vol.13, No.1-2)
• Ed Subitzky, Inkland (Vol.12, No.12)
• Helmut Reich, Methodological and Conceptual Issues: TSC 2005 (Vol.12, No.11)
• Giovanna Colombetti and Evan Thompson, Emotion Experience (Vol.12, No.8-10)
• Bill Faw, What We Know and What We Don’t About Consciousness Science (Vol.12, No.7)
• Anthony Freeman, The Sense of Being Glared At: What Is It Like to be a Heretic? (Vol.12, No.6)
• Chris Clarke, Being and Field Theory (Vol.12, No.4-5)
• John Barber, Consciousness and Teleportation (Vol.12, No.3)
• Charles Whitehead, Tucson: Ten Years On (Vol.11, No.12)
• Dan Zahavi, The Study of Consciousness and the Re-Invention of the Wheel (Vol. 11, No.10-11)
• Douglas F. Watt, Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain (Vol. 11, No.9)
• Burton Voorhees, Embodied Mathematics (Vol. 11, No.9)
• Adam Zeman, ASSC8 (Vol. 11, No.9)
• Anthony I. Jack and Andreas Roepstorff, Trust or Interaction? (Vol. 11, No.7-8)
• Roberta Tucker, Introduction to Special Feature on Consciousness and Literature (Vol. 11, No.5-6)
• Erich Harth, Art and Reductionism (Vol.11, No.3-4)
• Benjamin Libet, Can Conscious Experience Affect Brain Activity? (Vol.10, No.12)
• Josh Weisberg, Being All That We Can Be (Vol.10, No.11)
• Anthony I. Jack and Andreas Roepstorff, Why Trust the Subject? (Vol. 10, No.9-10)
• VS Ramachandran and EM Hubbard, The Phenomenology of Synaesthesia (Vol. 10, No.8)
• James Alcock, Give the Null Hypothesis a Chance: Reasons to Remain Doubtful about the Existence of Psi (Vol.10, No.6-7)
• Owen Holland, Machine Consciousness (Vol.10, No.4-5)
• William Irwin Thompson, The Borg or Borges? (Vol.10, No.4-5)
• John Smythies, Space, Time and Consciousness (Vol.10, No.3)
• J. Andrew Ross, The Self: From Soul to Brain (Vol.10, No.2)
• Keith Sutherland, Straw Men and Diamond Dogs (Vol.10, No.2)
• John Searle, Why I Am Not a Property Dualist (Vol. 9, No.12)
• David Lorimer, The Need for a Noetic Revolution (Vol.9, No.12)
• Michel Ferrari, Introduction to Varieties of Religious Experience: Centenary Essays (Vol.9, No.9-10)
• Martin E. Marty, The Varieties of Contexts for Reappraising The Varieties (Vol.9, No.9-10)
• William Irwin Thompson, The Evolution of the Afterlife (Vol.9, No.8)
• Keith Sutherland, The Perils of Polymathy (Vol.9, No.8)
• Alva Noe, Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Vol.9, No.5-6)
• Sam Salt, A Truly Hard Problem (Vol.9, No.1)
• Amy Ione, An Enquiry into Paul Cezanne (Vol.7, No.8/9)
• Keith Sutherland, Consciousness and Emotion (Vol.8, No.12)
• Anthony Freeman, Introduction to The Emergence of Consciousness (Vol.8, No.9-10)
• Evan Thompson, Obituary Note for Francisco J. Varela (Vol.8, No.8)
• Bill Faw, Whither Consciousness Studies? (Vol.8, No.8)
• Evan Thompson, Empathy and Consciousness (Vol. 8, No.5-7)
• Editorial: Another Front in the Science Wars? (Vol.8, No.1)
• V.S. Ramachandran, Sharpening Up ‘The Science of Art’ (Vol.8, No.1)
• Editorial: The future of consciousness studies
• Francisco Varela & Jonathan Shear, Introduction to The View From Within
• Galen Strawson, 'The self' (Volume 4, No. 5/6, keynote paper)
• Bernard J. Baars, In the theatre of consciousness (Volume 4, No.4, keynote paper)
• David J. Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness (Volume 2, No.3)
• Daniel C. Dennett, Facing backwards on the problem of consciousness (Volume 3, No.1)
• Andy Clark, I am John's Brain (Volume 2, No.2)
• Todd C. Moody, Conversations with zombies (Volume 1, No.2)
• Jaron Lanier, You can't argue with a zombie (Volume 2, No.4)
• Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, Conscious events as orchestrated spacetime selections (Volume 3, No. 1)
• Bernard J. Baars, Understanding subjectivity: Global Workspace theory and the resurrection of the observing self (Volume 3, No.3)
• Arthur Deikman, "I" = awareness (Volume 3, No.4)
• Thomas Metzinger, Faster than thought: holism, homogeneity and temporal coding (from Conscious Experience)
• Robert Forman, What does mysticism have to teach us about consciousness (Volume 5, No.2)
• Ken Wilber, An integral theory of consciousness (Volume 4, No.1)
• Jaron Lanier, Death: the skeleton key to consciousness studies (Volume 4, No.2)
• Maxine Sheets-Johnson, Consciousness: a natural history (Volume 5, No.3), forthcoming
• Keith Sutherland, The Mirror of Consciousness (Volume 5, No.2)
• Anthony J. Rudd, What it's like and what's really wrong with physicalism: a Wittgensteinian approach (Volume 5, No. 4)
• Keith Sutherland, Tucson III: a personal view (Volume 5, No. 4)
• Michael Gazzaniga (in conversation with Shaun Gallagher), The Neuronal Platonist (Volume 5, No.5/6)
• Allin Cottrell, Sniffing the Camembert: on the conceivability of zombies (Volume 6, No.1)
• Leonard D. Katz, Introduction to Evolutionary Origins of Morality (Volume 7, No. 1/2)
• Jacob Reimer, Tucson 2000: A Whirlwind Tour (Volume 7, No. 6)
• T. Murinbata and C. Whitehead, Why Consciousness Conferences Are Not Really Getting Us Anywhere: A Stone-Age Anthropologist Explains (Volume 7, No. 6)
• Alwyn Scott, How Smart Is a Neuron? Review of Christof Koch’s Biophysics of Computation (Volume 7, No. 5)
• Johannes Roessler, Attention and the Self: An Appreciation of C.O. Evans’ The Subject of Consciousness (Volume 7, No. 5)
• William Irwin Thompson, Speculations on the City and the Evolution of Consciousness (Volume 7, No.7)
• Joseph A. Goguen, Editorial Introduction to Art and the Brain, Part II (Volume 7, No.8/9)
• Erik Myin, Two Sciences of Perception and Visual Art: Editorial Introduction to the Brussels Papers (Volume 7, No.8/9)
• Anthony Freeman, Responsibility Without Choice: A First-Person Approach (Volume 7, No.10)
• Keith Sutherland, Why Do We Want To Open the Black Box? (Volume 7, No.10)
• Jensine Andresen & Robert Forman, Methodological Pluralism in the Study of Religion (Volume 7, No.11/12)
• Benny Shanon, The Divine Within (Volume 8, No.2)
• Marc Bekoff, Social Play Behaviour: Cooperation, Fairness, Trust and the Evolution of Morality (Volume 8, No.2)
• Tim Bayne, Co-consciousness (Volume 8, No.3)
• Jack Petranker, Who Will Be the Scientists? (Volume 8, No.11)

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