Publications
Monograph
- -in progress- Consciousness as Representing One’s Mind: Rethinking the Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
Selected Papers
- Renero & Brown (2022) A HOROR Theory for Introspective Consciousness Journal of Consciousness Studies 29 (11-12): 155-173
- Berger & Brown (2022) Rosenthal’s Representationalism in Josh Weisberg (ed) Qualitative Consciousness: Themes from the Philosophy of David Rosenthal. Cambridge Press
- Berger & Brown (2021) Conceptualizing Consciousness Philosophical Psychology
- Brown, LeDoux, & Rosenthal (2021) The Extra IngredientBiology and Philosophy 36(16)
- a short commentary on a target article by Birch et. al
- Brown & LeDoux (2020) Higher-Order Memory Schema and Conscious ExperienceCognitive Neuropsychology 37 (3-4):213-215
- a short commentary on a target article by Michael Graziano et al.
- Brown, Lau, & LeDoux (2019) Understanding the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness Trends in Cognitive Science 23 (9):754-768
- Lau & Brown (2019) The Emperor’s New Phenomenology? The Empirical Case for Conscious Experience without First-Order Representations in Pautz and Stoljar (eds) Blockheads! Essays on Ned Block’s Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness. The MIT Press.
- written in 2011-2012; see here for Block’s response, my response, and a further response from Block
- Michel, Beck, Block, Blumenfeld, Brown, Carmel, Carrasco, Chirimuuta, Chun, Cleeremans, Dehaene, Fleming, Frith, Haggard, He, Heyes, Goodale, Irvine, Kawato, Kentridge, King, Knight, Kouider, Lamme, Lamy, Lau, Laureys, LeDoux, Lin, Liu, Macknik, Martinez-Conde, Mashour, Melloni, Miracchi, Mylopoulos, Naccache, Owen, Passingham, Pessoa, Peters, Rahnev, Ro, Rosenthal, Sasaki, Sergent, Solovey, Schiff, Seth, Tallon-Baudry, Tamietto, Tong, van Gaal, Vlassova, Watanabe, Weisberg, Yan, & Yoshida (2019) “Opportunities and Challenges for a Maturing Science of Consciousness” Nature Human Behavior 3, 104-107: DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0531-8
- LeDoux, Brown, Pine, & Hofmann (2018) Know Thyself: Well Being and Subjective Experience Cerebrum
- LeDoux & Brown (2017) A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Brown (2015) The HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness Philosophical Studies 172(7): 1783-1794
- Brown (2014) Consciousness Doesn’t Overflow CognitionFrontiers in Psychology 5(1399). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01399
- Part of a an interdisciplinary Research Topic (also available as a free Ebook): Perception-Cognition Interface & Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness
- Brown & Mandik (2012) On Whether the Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness Entails Cognitive Phenomenology, Or: What is it Like to Think that One Thinks that P? Philosophical Topics 40(2):1-12
- actually published in 2014 but was backdated due to the journal being behind
- Brown (2012) The Brain and its States in Edelman, Fekete, & Zach (eds) Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience. Advances in Consciousness Studies 88. John Benjamins Press
- Brown (2012) Zombies and SimulationJournal of Consciousness Studies 19 (7-8): 21-25.
- [part of a special issue on David Chalmers’ article The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis. Now available as an Ebook: The Singularity]
- with a reply from Chalmers and some thoughts of mine in return
- Brown (2012) The Myth of Phenomenological Overflow Consciousness and Cognition 21 (2): 599-604
- Brown (2010) Deprioritizing the A Priori Arguments Against Physicalism Journal of Consciousness Studies 17 (3-4): 47-69
- Brown (2007) The Mark of the Mental Southwest Philosophy Review 23(1): 117-124
- Brown (2006) What is a Brain State? Philosophical Psychology 19 (6): 729-742
Reviews
- Brown (2019) Review of The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness edited by Dale Jacquette. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Brown (2016) Review of Content and Consciousness Revisited, with Replies by Daniel Dennett edited by Carlos Muñoz-Suárez and Felipe De Brigard. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Brown (2014) Review of Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity: The Case for Subjective Physicalism by Robert Howell. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Brown (2013) Review of Constructing the World by David Chalmers. The Philosophers’ Magazine
- Brown (2012) Review of The Consciousness Paradox by Rocco Gennaro. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Brown (2011) Review of Controversies and the Metaphysics of Mind by Yaron M. Senerowicz. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Brown (2008) Review of Feeling and Emotion: The Amsterdam Symposium by Manstead, Fridja & Fischer (ed). Philosophical Psychology
- Brown (2007) Review of Zombies and Consciousness by Robert Kirk. Philosophical Psychology
Edited Books and Journal Issues
- Consciousness Offline (2015): Special issue of Philosophical Studies featuring selected Papers from CO5: The Fifth Online Consciousness Conference
- Consciousness (2012): Special issue of Philosophical Topics featuring participants from CO4: The Fourth Online Consciousness Conference
- Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience (2013). Studies in Brain and Mind 6. Springer Press. A book featuring papers, rewritten commentaries, and author’s responses from CO3: The Third Online Consciousness Conference
- Standing on the Verge: Lessons and Limits from the Empirical Study of Consciousness (2012). A special issue of Consciousness and Cognition featuring rewritten papers, new commentaries, and author’s responses from CO2: The Second Online Consciousness Conference
- Philosophers Facing Phenomenal Consciousness (2010). A special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies featuring re-written papers from CO1: The first Online Consciousness Conference
Just for Fun
- Terminator and Philosophy: I’ll be Back, Therefore I am (2009) Edited with Kevin S. Decker. Part of Blackwell’s Pop Culture and Philosophy series