부산대학교 도서관

There are many things that might be meant by ‘the unity of consciousness.’ According to some conceptions of the unity of consciousness the claim that consciousness is necessarily unified is clearly implausible; according to others the claim that consciousness is necessarily unified is well‐night trivial. The main business of this chapter is to identify a conception of the unity of consciousness according to which the claim that consciousness is necessarily unified is substantive, plausible, and of some interest. The conception of the unity of consciousness that is advanced holds that what it is for a subject of experience to have a unified consciousness is for each of their conscious states to be phenomenally unified with each other. This conception of the unity of consciousness gives rise to the unity thesis, according to which any conscious creature must have a unified consciousness.