• the place of consciousness studies in cognitive science;
• approaches to consciousnee;
• function of consciousness;
• the uses of consciousness.

Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Searle, John, (1992),

The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Dennett, Daniel, (1992),

Consciousness Explained, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Hardcastle, Valerie, (1995),

Locating Consciousness, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ellis, Ralph, (1995),

Questioning Consciousness, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jibu, Mari & Kunio Yasue, (1995),

Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness, An introduction, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Globus, Gordon, (1995),

The Postmodern Brain, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Newton, Natika, (1996),

Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mac Cormac, Earl & Maxim Stamenov (eds), (1996),

Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gennaro, Rocco, (1996),

Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Stamenov, Maxim (ed.), (1997),

Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Grossenbacher, Peter (ed.), (1997),

Finding Consciousness in the Brain: The neurocognitive approach, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 2: Back in time: Why consciousness vanished from the horizon of the studies in psychology with the advent of behaviorism?
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 3: The relationship of consciousness studies to the traditional philosophical concerns and in the context of the current developments in the philosophy of mind: Searle, Dennett, Block, and the others.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 4: The unpopular connections: The relationship of consciousness studies to the psychology of emotion and psychology of perception: Wundt, Gibson, Izard, etc.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 5: The most unpopular choice: The relationship between the structure of language and the structure of consciousness: Jackendoff, Chafe and no others. The European background.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 6: The Eastern block connection to consciousness studies: The cultural specificity in the treatment of this topic in the context of the COCOM restrictions: working class consciousness vs. soteriology vs. Vygotsky, Bakhtin & Luria.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 7: More funny and sobering connections: The speculations of artificial intelligentsia and artificial life communities. Can becoming conscious help you or the lesson of Freud. The 'virtual wonders' of becoming conscious in psychotherapy.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 8: The computational approach to consciousness: Johnson-Laird, Pylyshyn, etc.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 9: Epiphenomenalism and computationalism.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 10: The family of noncomputational approaches: The chaos of consciousness—a plea for a deeper biological connection.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 11: The quantum neurodynamics approach.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 12:
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 13: Consciousness, the unconscious and their brain implementation.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 14: The problem of causality in the functional approaches to consciousness.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Topic 15: Doing consciousness: The prospect for a neurophenomenology.
Required reading:

• Searle, John, (1992), The Rediscovery of the Mind., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Newton, Natika, (1996), Foundations of Understanding, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.