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1. PRELIMINARY NOTIONS.

          1.1. Varieties of mental states: propositional attitudes, phenomenal states and emotions.

          1.2. The type/token distinction.

          1.3. Kinds of consciousness.

2. TYPE MATERIALISM.

          2.1. Description of the theory.

          2.2. The topic-neutral analysis.

          2.3. Kripke's objection.

          2.4. The multiple realizability of the mental.

3. FUNCTIONALISM.

          3.1. Machine functionalism.

          3.2. Ramsification, analytical functionalism and psychofunctionalism.

          3.3. Inverted qualia; absent qualia.

4. THE EXPLANATORY GAP.

          4.1. Nagel's subjectivity argument.

          4.2. Jackson's knowledge argument.

          4.3. Chalmer's zombies argument.

          4.4. The property dualism argument.

          4.5. The Jackson/Chalmers -- Block/Stalnaker discussion.

5. THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

          5.1. Higher-order theories.

          5.2. Representationalism.

• Braddon-Mitchell, David, Jackson, Frank (1996). The Philosophy of mind and cognition. Oxford [etc.]: Blackwell.
• A Companion to the philosophy of mind (1994). Oxford: Blackwell.
• Chalmers, David J (1996). The Conscious mind, : in search of a fundamental theory. New York [etc.]: Oxford University Press.
• Kripke, Saul A (1981). Naming and necessity. Oxford [etc.]: Blackwell.
• Levine, Joseph (2001). Purple haze, : the puzzle of consciousness. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press.
• Dretske, Fred (1995). Naturalizing the mind. Cambridge, Mas. [etc.]: MIT Press.
• The Nature of consciousness, : philosophical debates (cop. 1997). Cambridge [Mass.] [etc.]: MIT Press.

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