Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-468) and index.
Introduction -- Real materialism -- Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism -- Can we know the nature of reality as it is In itself? -- Red and 'Red' -- Self, body, and experience -- What is the relation between an experience, the subject of the experience, and the content of the experience? -- Against narrativity -- Episodic ethics -- Mental ballistics: the involuntariness of spontaneity -- Intentionality and experience: terminological preliminaries -- Real intentionality 3: why intentionality entails consciousness -- On the inevitability of freedom from the compatibilist point of view -- The impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility -- Consciousness, free will, and the unimportance of determinism -- Free agents -- Realism and causation -- The contingent reality of natural necessity -- David Hume: objects and power -- Epistemology, semantics, ontology, and David Hume.
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This is a collection of essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics - consciousness and the mind-body problem, our knowledge of the world, the nature of the self or subject, free will and moral responsibility, the nature of thought and intentionality, and causation and David Hume.