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This book aims to show the centrality of a proper ontology of
properties in thinking about consciousness. Philosophers have long
grappled with what is now known as the hard problem of
consciousness, i.e., how can subjective or qualitative features of
our experience-such as how a strawberry tastes-arise from brain
states? More recently, philosophers have incorporated what seems
like promising empirical research from neuroscience and cognitive
psychology in an attempt to bridge the gap between measurable
mental states on the one hand, and phenomenal qualities on the
other. In Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties, many of the
leading philosophers working on this issue, as well as a few
emerging scholars, have written 14 new essays on this problem. The
essays address topics as diverse as substance dualism, mental
causation, the metaphysics of artificial intelligence, the logic of
conceivability, constitution, extended minds, the emergence of
consciousness, and neuroscience and the unity and neural correlates
of consciousness, but are nonetheless unified in a collective
objective: the need for a proper ontology of properties to
understand the hard problem of consciousness, both on non-empirical
and empirical grounds.
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