Consciousness and Science

The following are recommended to everyone interested in this topic. If you have further recommendations or lists of your own, please send them to me here.

Introduction

Good places to start

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Cohen, A. (1994), Self Consciousness. An Alternative Anthropology of Identity. London: Routledge.

Cohen, A. and Rapport, N. (eds) (1995). Questions of Consciousness. London: Routledge.

Dennett, D.C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Boston: Little, Brown.

Humphrey, N.K. (1992). A History of the Mind. London: Chatto and Windus.

Marcel, A.J. and Bisiach, E. (1988). Consciousness in Contemporary Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). The Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1977). The Grasp of Consciousness. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1978). Success and Understanding. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Searle, J.R. (1997). The Mystery of Consciousness. London: Granta Publications.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Crook, J.H. (1983). On attributing consciousness to animals. Nature, 303: 11–14.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Websites

Websites worth knowing about

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