Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-order Perspective

1. Introduction; 2. Reductive explanation and the ´explanatory gap´; 3. Natural theories of consciousness; 4. HOP over FOR, HOT theory; 5. Phenomenal concepts and higher-order experiences; 6. Dual-content theory: the explanatory advantages; 7. Conscious thinking: language or elimination?; 8. Conscious experience versus conscious thought; 9. Sympathy and subjectivity; 10. Suffering without subjectivity; 11. Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much; 12. On being simple minded.