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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 SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Full text also available from:

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"Do we need this journal? . . . Yes, we do: there is no other journal quite like it, and one day we shall, I think, look back to its appearance as a defining moment . . . and at the price, it's a snip!" Jeffrey Gray, Nature

"With JCS, consciousness studies has arrived."

Susan Greefield, Times Higher Education Supplement

"There is a need for a journal that will publish high-quality work on consciousness while being at the same time less tied down by rigid views as to the suitability of material than most journals. One hopes that the promise of this first issue will be fulfilled."

Brian Josephson, Times Higher Education Supplement.

"It is pleasant that we are promised discussions in the humanities as well as in science, with papers on culture and on the philosophy of mind slated for future issues. It will continue to have something for everybody."

David Chalmers, Times Literary Supplement.

"A volatile mixture of refereed articles, interviews and conference reports from all camps (reductionist to mystical) in one of the most exciting areas of research and theory-making."

Gene Feder, The Lancet.

"Its advisory board is a roll-call of the biggest names in consciousness publishing."

John Cornwell, The Tablet.

"You guys have a marvelous magazine. You publish a lot of things that would not be published in routine philosophical and scientific journals, and that seems to me exactly right at our present state of the investigation of consciousness. We don't know how it works and we need to try all kinds of different ideas."

John Searle (Interview with Anthony Freeman).

"In my forty years of experimental research and commentary in the area of conscious experience, I have not encountered a journal as uniquely helpful and stimulating as the JCS. If I had to choose only one journal to read on the topic of consciousness, the JCS would be it."

Benjamin Libet
"There is clearly a need -- or a demand -- for an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the subject, and in its first five years the Journal of Consciousness Studies has done an admirable job of meeting the need. Though focused on just one topic, it has the widest range of contributors of any academic journal I have read"
Ray Monk,  Times Higher Education Supplement (February 12, 1999)

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A New Multi-Disciplinary Subject?

See also Editorial: The Future of Consciousness Studies
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

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Full Text of Selected Articles

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• Book Reviews (Vol.18, No.3-4)
• Claire Petitmengin, 10 Years of Viewing From Within (Vol.18, No.2)
• Josh Weisberg, Describing Inner Experience (Vol.18, No.1)
• Graham Horswell, Nature& Human Nature (Vol.17, No.11-12)
• Fabrice Bothereau, Atomism and Atelic Conceptualization (Vol.17, No.9-10)
• Charles Whitehead, Rethinking Reality (Vol.17, No.7-8)
• Bill Faw, Minds Did Wander At Tucson-2010 (Vol.17, No.5-6)
• Richard Brown, Philosophers Facing Phenomenal Consciousness (Vol.17, No.3-4)
• Ed Subitzky, A Man Gives Himself the Turing Test . . . And Passes! (Vol.17, No.1-2)
• Claire Petitmengin, Ten Years of Viewing From Within (Vol.16, No.10-12)
• Book Reviews (Vol.16, No.9)
• Daniel D. Hutto, Folk Psychology as Narrative Practice (Editor's Introduction) (Vol.16, No.6-8)
• Chris Nunn, Defining Consciousness (Editor's Introduction) (Vol.16, No.5)
• Book Reviews (Vol.16, No.2-3)
• Rebecca Sutherland, Mind Games [review] (Vol.16, No.1)
• Donelson E. Dulany How Well Are We Moving Toward a Most Productive Science of Consciousness? (Vol.15, No.12)
• Charles Whitehead, ‘You Do an Empirical Experiment and You Get an Empirical Result. What Can Any Anthropologist Tell Me That Could Change That?’ (Vol.15, No.10-11)
• Uziel Awret, Las Meninas and the Search for Self-Representation (Vol.15, No.9)
• 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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