I have on occasion been accused of being a “Higher-Order Theorist” and I suppose I will have to plead guilty to that at this point! I have spent a lot of time thinking, talking, and writing about the higher-order thought theory of consciousness. A lot of that thinking occurred here at Philosophy Sucks! and so I have gathered links to the posts I have written over the past 10 years exploring various aspects of the higher-order thought theory of consciousness (some which have been incorporated into various publications of mine but others haven’t).

Altogether I counted 51 posts, which is about 10% of my total posts!

1. Explaining What It’s Like
2. Do Thoughts Make Us Conscious of Things?
3. A Tale of Two T’s
4. Two Concepts of Transitive Consciousness
5. Kripke, Consciousness, and the ‘Corn
6. As ‘Corny as I want to Be
7. HOT Fun in the Summertime 1
8. HOT Fun in the Summertime 2
9. Gary and Jerry
10. On Hallucinating Pain
11. Consciousness, Relational Properties, and Higher-Order Theories
12. Consciousness is not a Relational Property
13. Varieties of Higher-Order Zombie
14. Empirical Support for the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness
15. The Function of Consciousness in Higher-Order Theories
16. That’s not an Argument
17. The Introspective HOT Zombie Problem
18. Is There Such a Thing as a Neurophilosophical Theory of Consciousness?
19. Implementing the Transitivity Principle
20. Priming and Change Blindness
21. Priming, Change Blindness, and the Function of Consciousness
22. Unconscious Change Detection, Priming, and the Function of Consciousness
23. HOT Fun in the Wintertime?
24. Rosenthal’s Objection
25. Pain Asymbolia and Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
26. There’s Something about Jerry
27. HOT (Still) Implies PAM
28. HOT Theories of Consciousness & Unconscious Gricean Intentions
29. The Higher-Order Response to the Zombie Argument
30. HOT Imagination
31. HOT Byrne
32. Consciousness, Consciousness, Consciousness!
33. HOT Dam it’s a HO Down-Showdown
34. Unconscious Introspection and Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
35. HOT Qualia Realism
36. HOT Block
37. More HOTer, More Better
38. Higher-Order Mental Pointing
39. The New New Dualism
40. Dream a little dream
41. Phenomenally HOT
42. Same-Order Theories of Consciousness and the Failure of Phenomenal Intimacy
43. Explaining Consciousness and its Consequences
44. Cognitive Access: The Only Game in Town 
45. Explaining Cartesian Consciousness
46. The Overflow Cup Runneth Over
47. The Nature of Phenomenal Consciousness
48. Introspection, Acquaintance, and Higher-Order Representations
49. Kozuch on Lau and Brown
50. Gottlieb on Presentational Character and Higher-Order Thought Theories of Consciousness
51. Seager on the Empirical Case for Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness