ABSTRACT
Broad-spectrum philosophical resistance to physicalist accounts of conscious awareness
has condensed around a single and clearly identified line of argument. Philosophical
analysis and criticism of that line of argument has also begun to crystallize. The
nature of that criticism coheres with certain theoretical ideas from cognitive neuroscience
that attempt to address both the existence and the contents of consciousness. Also,
experimental evidence has recently begun to emerge that will serve both to constrain
and to inspire such theorizing. The present article attempts to summarize the situation.
Keywords
consciousness - qualia - reduction - dualism
