CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 247Philosophy and Theoretical ScienceEpistemology, Ethics, and MetaphysicsFree Will and Agency

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

What is the unity of consciousness?

Bayne, Tim, Chalmers, David J.·2003·The Unity of ConsciousnessBinding, Integration, and Dissociation
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508571.003.0002
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

This chapter addresses the three questions on the unity of consciousness: What is the unity of consciousness? Is consciousness necessarily unified? How can the unity of consciousness be explained? The central project is to isolate a notion of unity on which the unity thesis is both substantive and plausible — this chapter aims to find a more precise version of the unity thesis that is neither trivially true nor obviously false. It looks at certain arguments that have been made against the unity of consciousness, to determine whether they are good arguments against the unity thesis. And finally, after fleshing out the unity thesis further, the chapter applies the thesis to certain currently popular philosophical theories of consciousness, arguing that the thesis is incompatible with these theories: if the unity thesis is true, then these theories are false.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508571.003.0002

Cites

1 of 1 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 247

Metadata

Authors
Bayne, T., & Chalmers, D. J.
Affiliations
  • Macquarie University (AU)
  • University of Arizona (US)
ORCID
Venue
The Unity of ConsciousnessBinding, Integration, and Dissociation
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2003-06-12
Pages
23-58
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508571.003.0002
OpenAlex
W1866552835
Cited by
247
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 10
FWCI
13.03
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Free Will and Agency
Keywords
unity of consciousness, phenomenal unity, phenomenal experience, theory of consciousness

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review