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Relevant Contemporary Sources

Block, Ned . “Qualia.” In A Companion to Philosophy of Mind , edited by Samuel Guttenplan (no known photo), 514–20. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.

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Bourget, David . “The Representational Theory of Consciousness.” PhD dissertation Australian National University, January 2010. Chair: David Chalmers

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Bourget, David and Angela Mendelovici . “Phenomenal Intentionality.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta .

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Burge, Tyler . “Anti-Individualism and Perceptual Representation: Interview With Tyler Burge.” Interviewed by Carlos Muñoz-Suárez . Europe’s Journal of Psychology 10, no. 4 (2014): 589–97. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i4.767.

Burge, Tyler . “Cartesian Error and the Objectivity of Perception.” 

Reprinted in Burge’s collected papers from 1975 –2003: Foundations of Mind: Philosophical Essays, Volume 2. Boston: MIT Press (2007): 192–207.

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Byrne, Darragh . “Metaphysics of Mind.” (Last reviewed December 1, 2022. Last modified: May 10, 2010. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0076).

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Carruthers, Peter. “Cartesian Epistemology: Is the Theory of the Self-Transparent Mind Innate?.” The Journal of Consciousness Studies 15, no. 4 (2008): 28–53.

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Carruthers, Peter and Rocco Gennaro . “Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman .

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Curley, Edwin M. . “Locke, Boyle, and the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities.” The Philosophical Review 81, 4 (Oct., 1972: 438–64.

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Davies, Martin . “Consciousness and the Varieties of Aboutness.” In Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation , edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham F(rank). Macdonald . Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

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Embry, Brian . “An Early Modern Scholastic Theory of Negative Entities: Thomas Compton Carleton on Lacks, Negations, and Privations.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23, no. 1 (2015): 22–45. Fat

Abstract: Seventeenth century scholastics had a rich debate about the ontological status and nature of lacks, negations, and privations. Realists in this debate posit irreducible negative entities responsible for the non-existence of positive entities. One of the first scholastics to develop a realist position on negative entities was Thomas Compton Carleton. In this paper I explain Carleton’s theory of negative entities, including what it is for something to be negative, how negative entities are individuated, whether they are abstract or concrete, and how they affect their subjects. I argue that for Carleton, negative entities are conceived as spatially extended simples that affect their subjects by means of spatial overlap. I also show how Carleton responds to some theological worries about his realism concerning negative entities.

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Harman, Gilbert . “Is There Mental Representation?.” In Perception and Cognition Issues in the Foundations of Psychology, Volume 09 . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1978): 57–64.

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Jacob, Pierre . “Intentionality.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman .

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Kind, Amy . “Qualia.” In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, September 27, 2023.

• See Amy Kind’s Bibliography under “7. References and Further Reading” in her “Qualia”.”

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King, Peter . “Why isn’t the mind-body problem medieval?” In Forming the Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment , edited by Henrik Lagerlund . Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Verlag (2007): 187–206.

• See Peter King’s bibliography.

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Lycan, William. “Representational Theories of Consciousness.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman .

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Matson, Wallace I. . “Why isn’t the mind-body problem ancient?” In Mind, Matter, and Method, edited by Paul Feyerabend and Grover Maxwell (no known photo). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1966): 92–102.  

Matson, Wallace I. . “2. What is a Belief?” (68–70) and “3. The Difference Language Makes” (70–71), sub-sections from “Spinoza on Beliefs.” In Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind Volume II , edited by Yirmiyahu Yovel and assistant editor Gideon Segal (no known photo), 68–71. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.

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Normore, Calvin G. . “Burge, Descartes, and us.” In Reflections and Replies: Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge, edited by Martin Hahn and Björn T.(orgrim) Ramberg . Boston: MIT Press (2003): 1–14.

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Papineau, David. The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Pitt, David . “Mental Representation.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman .

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Rickless, Samuel C. . “Qualities.” The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy , edited by Dan Kaufman , 60–86. New York: Routledge, 2018.

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Rosenthal, David M. . Consciousness and Mind . New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. See contents in screenshot below.

Rosenthal, David M. “Consciousness and the Mind.” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 51 (July 2002): 227–51. 

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Schmal, Daniel . “Virtual reflection: Antoine Arnauld on Descartes’ concept of conscientia.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28, no. 4 (2019): 714–34. Also available at Academia.com. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1684238.

Abstract: Although Descartes has often been portrayed as the father of the modern concept of mind, his approach to consciousness is notoriously problematic. What makes it particularly hard to assess his role in the development of the theories of consciousness is the difficulty of clarifying the kind of consciousness he might have in mind when using the associated Latin terms (conscius, cogitatio, conscium esse, etc.). In this article, I analyse Antoine Arnauld’s early interpretation of the passages in Descartes that refer to the issue of consciousness. I argue for two separate but interconnected claims. Firstly, I show that when Arnauld sets out to make a case for Descartes’ concept of cogitatio, he reads the central passages in light of some scholastic theories of cognition, in particular, the concept of ‘reflexio virtualis’ which, far from being a Cartesian invention, comes from the late scholastic discourse. Secondly, I argue that by talking about virtual reflection Arnauld provides an interpretation of Descartes’ views in terms of the intrinsic structure of the first-order thought—a reading which is still plausible, even by our contemporary standards.

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Seager, William E.  & David Bourget . “Representationalism about Consciousness.” In The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, edited by Max Velmans and Susan Schneider. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 261–76.

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Searle, John R. . Intentionality. An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

• See John Searle’s CV up through 2008.

Searle, John R. “Chapter 1: Theory of Mind and Darwin’s Legacy.” In the Light of Evolution: Volume VII: The Human Mental Machinery . Edited by Camilo J. Cela-Condea, Raúl Gutiérrez Lombardo, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala. Washington, D. C.: National Academies Press (2014): 3–18.

• Read the “From the Academy: Colloquium Introduction” to the book by Camilo J. Cela-Condea, Raúl Gutiérrez Lombardo, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala.

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Siewert, Charles . “Consciousness and Intentionality.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2022 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta .

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Thompson, Evan . Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception . New York: Routledge, 1995.

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Tye, Michael. “Qualia.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta .

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Twardowski, Kazimierz . Zur Lehre vom Inhalt and Gegenstand der Vorstellun-gen. Eine Psychologische Untersuchung .Wien, Holder 1894; reprinted with an Introduction by Rudolf Haller, Munchen: Philosophia Verlag, 1982.

Twardowski, Kazimierz . On the Content and Object of Presentations , translated by Reinhardt Grossmann . The Hague: Martins Nijhoff, 1977. Originally published as Zu Lehre vom Inhalt and Gegenstand der Vorstellungen, Vienna, 1894. Facsimile edition with introduction by Rudolf Haller, Philosophia Verlag. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.

• Read John Tienson’s “Kasimir Twardowski on the content of presentations” (2013).

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Van Gulick, Robert . “Consciousness.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman .

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Descartes Bibliographies

• Bibliographia Cartesiana 1800–1960 . A Critical Guide to the Descartes Literature, edited by Gregor Sebba. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964.
• Abstract: This book offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies. It presents the literature of the last 160 years in alphabetical order (Part Two), combined with a systematic analytical survey (Part One) and a detailed topical index to the whole (Part Three). This organization makes it possible to turn bibliogra­ phy from a repository of references into a workshop of research. The system­ atic survey of Part One and the topical index of Part Three, together, offer a mise au point of Descartes studies over their full historical and topical range. The results have often been surprising and illuminating to the author, and if his experience is any guide, the reader, too, will begin to wonder about certain seemingly well-settled points, or marvel at the Protean shapes which our elusive philosopher assumes when mighty commentators force him to reveal his true nature. A work which has been in the making for fifteen years must show the traces of expansion in scope, and changes in evaluation. Bibliographia cartesiana amends my Descartes chapter in A Critical Bibliography of French Literature, v. 3, 1961 (see no. I9a), and supersedes an earlier version of Parts One and Two, published in 1959 under the main title Descartes and his Philosophy, v. 1 (set: no. I8a). Part I (Introduction to Descartes Studies) divides the field into eleven broad areas.
• Bibliographie Cartesiene 1960–1996 , edited by Jean-Robert Armogathe and Vincent Carraud . Lecce: Conte Editore, 2003. Also available at Scribd and at the Internet Archive.
  
  
• Cartesian Bibliography 1997–2012. A searchable database.

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Actu Philosophia ten pages of French books on Descartes

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IxTheo (Index Theologicus)

A searchable International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies database. A service of University Library of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

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    Twenty-five years of Descartes Scholarship! 1960–1984 A Bibliography, edited by Vere Chappell and Willis Doney (no known photo). New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1987. Screenshots below of the first two pages of the Appendix (163–64) that extends to p. 174 with listings of Descartes’s writings in Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. Impressive!

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Cress, Donald A. . “Canadian and American Dissertations on Descartes and Cartesianism 1865–1984.” 1987. 21 pages.

Abstract: Gregor Sebba’s monumental Bibliographia Cartesiana; A Critical Guide to the Descartes Literature 1800-1960 (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1964) is the basic bibliographical tool of pre-1960 Descartes scholarship. While somewhat weak in its coverage of twentieth century Anglo-American analytical literature on Descartes, it is outstanding in its coverage of continental schol­arship. Willis Doney’s “Bibliography,” in his Descartes: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Doubleday, 1967), largely rectifies Sebba’s lack of coverage of pre-1960 analytical work on Descartes. Subsequent to Doney’s 1967 bibliography, there have been several useful bibliographical updates, including the excellent “Bulletin Cartésien (1972 to the present)” published annually in the Archives de Philosophie. However, Vere Chappell and Willis Doney’s Twenty-five Years of Descartes Scholarship, 1960–1984: a Bibliography. (New York: Garland, 1987) promises to become the definitive update of Sebba. The present bibliography is designed to supplement the above bibliographies by listing Canadian and American dissertations on Descartes and Cartesianism from 1865 through 1984. It lists dissertations alphabetically by author and provides locations in Dissertations Abstracts as well as University Microfilms order numbers, whenever available.

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Chamberlin, Colin Bibliography with hyperlinks to his papers on Descartes, Malebranche, and Margaret Cavendish.

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De Rosa, Raffaella . “René Descartes: Sensory Representations.” Oxford Bibliographies.

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    Skirry, Justin . “René Descartes.” Oxford Bibliographies.

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PhilPapers Bibliography for René Descartes with 5388 entries.

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    PhilPapers Bibliography for Descartes’s theory of ideas with 989 entries.

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    Abbreviated bibliography of René Descartes’s primary and secondary sources prepared by Desh Raj Sirswal .

    Descartes Bibliography prepared by Desh Raj Sirswal including (A) Works by Descartes: Original and in Translations (42 entries), Bibliographies on Descartes and Cartesian Themes (9 entries), and Works on Descartes (1,087 entries; misnumbered). Published originally in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Special Numbers on René Descartes 23, nos. 1-2 (1996): 257–346. PDF available through Savitribai Phule Pune University.

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■ See 208 entries for Descartes’s online publications at the ONLINE books page.

■ Search over three million online books at the University of Pennsylvania.

■ An 89 page Descartes bibliography with 42 entries for works by Descartes, 9 compiled Cartesian bibliographies, 263 books on Descartes, and over 1,087 journal articles from 1920 to 1995.

■ Descartes books.

■ Good Reads List of 645 published editions of Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy (first published in 1641). See the first page of editions below.

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