Carruthers, Peter - Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective

This book is a collection of essays about consciousness (focusing mostly on a particular sort of reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness and its implications), together with surrounding issues. Amongst the latter are included the nature of reductive explanation in general; the nature of conscious thought and the plausibility of some form of eliminativism about conscious thought (while retaining realism about phenomenal consciousness); the appropriateness of sympathy for creatures whose mental states aren't phenomenally conscious ones; and the psychological continuities and similarities that exist between minds that lack phenomenally conscious mental states and minds that possess them.