The Fourth Online Consciousness Conference ran in February 2012. Each paper was posted with invited commentaries and an open discussion thread. Everything is archived here on this site, papers, commentaries, videos and the original comment threads. Click a title to read the paper and the discussion.
Papers and sessions
- Must Physicalism Imply the Supervienence of the Mental on the Physical?
- Empty Thoughts: An Explanatory Problem for Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
- Self-Consciousness: Executive Design, Sociocultural Grounds
- Dissolving the Hard Problem of Consciousness
- Does the S&M Robot Feel Guilty?
- Conscious-State Anti-Realism
- Vision, Self-Location, and the Phenomenology of the ’Point of View’
- Experiential Awareness: Do You Prefer It to Me?
- Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Consciousness Dilemma
- Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation
- The Biological Cost of Consciousness
- Special Session on Action Consciousness
- On the Developmental Conditions of Self-Consciousness
- Evolving Self-Consciousness
Program, announcements and other posts
- CO4 Program
- CO 4 Papers
- Conference Reception
- Conference Feedback
- Recent Developments
- Standing on the Verge: Lessons and Limits from the Empirical Study of Consciousness
- Turing Consciousness 2012
- CO5 News
- Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience
- Some Stats
- cfp: Fifth Online Consciousness Conference
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