In this pioneering collection of essays, leading theorists examine the                  self-representational theory of consciousness, which holds that consciousness always                  involves some form of self-awareness. The self-representational theory of                  consciousness stands as an alternative to the two dominant reductive theories of                  consciousness, the representational theory of consciousness (RTC) and the                  higher-order monitoring (HOM) theory, combining elements of both RTC and HOM theory                  in a novel fashion that may avoid the fundamental deficiencies of each.Although                  self-representationalist views have been common throughout the history of both                  Western and Eastern philosophy, they have been largely neglected in the recent                  literature on consciousness. This book approaches the self-representational theory                  from a range of perspectives, with contributions from scholars in analytic                  philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy, as well as two longer essays                  by Antonio Damasio and David Rudrauf and Douglas Hofstadter. The book opens with six                  essays that argue broadly in favor of self-representationalist views, which are                  followed by five that argue broadly against them. Contributors next consider                  connections to such philosophical issues as the nature of propositional attitudes,                  knowledge, attention, and indexical reference. Finally, Damasio and Rudrauf link                  consciousness as lived with consciousness as described in neurobiological terms; and                  Hofstadter compares consciousness to the "strange loop" of mathematical                  self-reference brought to light by G?del's incompleteness                  theorems.Contributors:Andrew Brook, Peter Carruthers, Antonio Damasio, John J.                  Drummond, Jason Ford, Rocco J. Gennaro, George Graham, Christopher S. Hill, Douglas                  R. Hofstadter, Terry Horgan, Tomis Kapitan, Uriah Kriegel, Keith Lehrer, Joseph                  Levine, Robert W. Lurz, David Rudrauf, David Woodruff Smith, John Tienson, Robert                  Van Gulick, Kathleen Wider, Kenneth Williford, Dan Zahavi

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