The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space
semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen …

A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive
neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge. In Plato's Camera …

An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory
of the metaphysics of color. Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent …

Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you. The mug
is blue on the outside, white on the inside. It's large for a mug. And it's nearly full of freshly …

Is color experience cognitively penetrable? Some philosophers have recently argued that it
is. In this paper, we take issue with the claim that color experience is cognitively penetrable …

What is colour vision for? In the popular imagination colour vision is for “seeing the colours”—
adding hue to the achromatic world of shape, depth and motion. On this view colour vision …

Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the'knowledge argument'against physicalism,
pioneered by Frank Jackson. According to physicalism, consciousness is a physical …

The paper reviews the empirical evidence for highly significant variation across perceivers in
hue perception and argues that color physicalism cannot accommodate this variability. Two …

In this paper I begin by considering Travis's main argument against a representational view
of experience. I argue that the argument succeeds in showing that representation is not …