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  1. The Science of the Mind.Owen J. Flanagan - 1984 - MIT Press.
    Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology....
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  2. (1 other version)Consciousness.Owen J. Flanagan - 1984 - In The Science of the Mind. MIT Press.
  3. The stream of consciousness.Owen J. Flanagan - 1992 - In Owen Flanagan, Consciousness Reconsidered. MIT Press.
     
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  4. Self expressions: mind, morals, and the meaning of life.Owen J. Flanagan - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but as David Hume pointed out, the self, once reflected upon, may be nowhere to be found. The favored view is that we are material beings living in the material world. But if so, a host of destabilizing questions surface. If persons are just a sophisticated sort of animal, then what sense is there (...)
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  5. Zombies and the function of consciousness.Owen J. Flanagan & Thomas W. Polger - 1995 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (4):313-21.
    Todd Moody’s Zombie Earth thought experiment is an attempt to show that ‘conscious inessentialism’ is false or in need of qualification. We defend conscious inessentialism against his criticisms, and argue that zombie thought experiments highlight the need to explain why consciousness evolved and what function(s) it serves. This is the hardest problem in consciousness studies.
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    Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology,.Owen J. Flanagan & Amélie Rorty (eds.) - 1989 - MIT Press.
    Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
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  7. Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind.Owen J. Flanagan - 2000 - New York: Oup Usa.
    In Dreaming Souls, Owen Flanagan provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, 'free-riders', irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or create meaning, even when we (...)
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  8. Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism.Thomas W. Polger & Owen J. Flanagan - 2002 - In James H. Fetzer, Consciousness Evolving. John Benjamins.
    Consciousness and evolution are complex phenomena. It is sometimes thought that if adaptation explanations for some varieties of consciousness, say, conscious visual perception, can be had, then we may be reassured that at least those kinds of consciousness are not epiphenomena. But what if other varieties of consciousness, for example, dreams, are not adaptations? We sort out the connections among evolution, adaptation, and epiphenomenalism in order to show that the consequences for the nature and causal efficacy of consciousness are not (...)
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    Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience.Gregg D. Caruso & Owen J. Flanagan (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Neuroexistentialism brings together some of the world's leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars to tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.
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  10. The Science of Mind.Owen J. Flanagan - 1985 - Ethics 96 (1):195-197.
  11. Multiple identity, character transformation, and self-reclamation.Owen J. Flanagan - 1994 - In George Graham & G. Lynn Stephens, Philosophical Psychopathology. MIT Press.
  12. Consciousness, adaptation, and epiphenomenalism.Owen J. Flanagan & Thomas W. Polger - 2002 - In James H. Fetzer, Consciousness Evolving. John Benjamins.
    Consciousness and evolution are complex phenomena. It is sometimes thought that if adaptation explanations for some varieties of consciousness, say, conscious visual perception, can be had, then we may be reassured that at least those kinds of consciousness are not epiphenomena. But what if other varieties of consciousness, for example, dreams, are not adaptations? We sort out the connections among evolution, adaptation, and epiphenomenalism in order to show that the consequences for the nature and causal efficacy of consciousness are not (...)
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    Quinean ethics.Owen J. Flanagan Jr - 1982 - Ethics 93 (1):56-74.
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    Virtue, sex, and gender: Some philosophical reflections on the moral psychology debate.Owen J. Flanagan Jr - 1982 - Ethics 92 (3):499-512.
  15. What is the nature of morality? A response to Casebeer, Railton and Ruse.Hagop Sarkissian, Owen J. Flanagan & David Wong - 2007 - In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Bradford. pp. 45-52.
    A response to comments by William Casebeer, Peter Railton, and Michael Ruse on "Naturalizing Ethics" (2007).
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  16. Innate representations.Jerry Samet & Owen J. Flanagan - 1988 - In Stuart Silvers, Representation: Readings In The Philosophy Of Mental Representation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  17. Self-expression in sleep: Neuroscience and dreams.Owen J. Flanagan - 1996 - In Self expressions: mind, morals, and the meaning of life. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Impartiality and particularity.Owen J. Flanagan Jr & Jonathan E. Adler - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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  19. Consciousness, naturalism and Nagel.Owen J. Flanagan - 1985 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 6 (3):373-90.
     
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    Consciousness and the natural method.Owen J. Flanagan - 1995 - Neuropsychologia 33:1103-15.
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    Moral sprouts and natural teleologies: 21st century moral psychology meets classical Chinese philosophy.Owen J. Flanagan - 2014 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press.
    Contemporary Western moral philosophy in harmony with classical Chinese philosophy, especially Buddhism.
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    Prospects for a unified theory of consciousness or, what dreams are made of.Owen J. Flanagan - 1997 - In Jonathan D. Cohen & Jonathan W. Schooler, Scientific Approaches to Consciousness. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 405--422.
  23. Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain.Gary D. Fireman & Owen J. Flanagan (eds.) - 2003 - New York: Oup Usa.
    The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists have taken an interest in the stories people create to understand themselves, their past, and the world around them. The research presented in this volume should appeal to researchers enmeshed in these problems, as well as the general reader with an interest in the philosophical problem of what consciousness (...)
  24. The nature and function of consciousness: Lessons from blindsight.Guven Guzeldere, Owen J. Flanagan & Valerie Gray Hardcastle - 2000 - In Michael S. Gazzaniga, The New Cognitive Neurosciences: 2nd Edition. MIT Press.
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    Skinnerian Metaphysics and the Problem of Operationism.Owen J. Flanagan - 1980 - Behaviorism 8 (1):1-13.
  26. Explaining the evolution of consciousness: The other hard problem.Thomas W. Polger & Owen J. Flanagan - 1996
    Recently some philosophers interested in consciousness have begun to turn their attention to the question of what evolutionary advantages, if any, being conscious might confer on an organism. The issue has been pressed in recent dicussions involving David Chalmers, Todd Moody, Owen Flanagan and Thomas Polger, Daniel Dennett, and others. The purpose of this essay is to consider some of the problems that face anyone who wants to give an evolutionary explanation of consciousness. We begin by framing the problem in (...)
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    A reply to Lawrence Kohlberg.Owen J. Flanagan Jr - 1982 - Ethics 92 (3):529-532.
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    Dreaming souls: sleep, dreams, and the evolution of the conscious mind.Owen J. Flanagan - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    "An accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming."--Jacket.
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    Malcolm and the fallacy of behaviorism.Owen J. Flanagan & T. McCreadie-Albright - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 26 (December):425-30.
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    Moral structures?Owen J. Flanagan - 1982 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (3):255-270.
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    Psychoanalysis as a social activity.Owen J. Flanagan - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (2):238-239.
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    Philosophy Seminars and the Interview Method1.Owen J. Flanagan - 1974 - Metaphilosophy 5 (4):372-375.
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  33. Stout, Jeffrey, "The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy". [REVIEW]Owen J. Flanagan - 1982 - Ethics 93:629.
     
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  34. A decade of teleofunctionalism: Lycan's consciousness and consciousness and experience. [REVIEW]Thomas W. Polger & Owen J. Flanagan - 2001 - Minds and Machines 11 (1):113-126.
    The 1990’s, we’ve been told, were the decade of the brain. But without anyone announcing or declaring, much less deciding that it should be so, the 90’s were also a breakthrough decade for the study of consciousness. (Of course we think the two are related, but that is another matter altogether.) William G. Lycan leads the charge with his 1987 book Consciousness (MIT Press), and he has weighed-in again with Consciousness and Experience (1996, MIT Press). Together these two books put (...)
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