How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?

A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to the central question of conscious experience and its putative downward causative effect on brains. Max Velmans begins with a lucid target article that sets out the issue and its difficulties. Eight commentaries follow, which reflect the sophisticated state of the art in consciousness studies. Max then comes back to question if reductive and non-reductive physicalism can be defended and clarifies his own position of relfexive monism. An excellent set of essays for those wanting to get to grips with the details of the