Bernard J. Baars (baars)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Baars, Bernard J. 1983. “Conscious Contents Provide the Nervous System with Coherent, Global Information.” in Consciousness and Self-regulation. Advances in Research and Theory, volume 3, edited by Richard J. Davidson, Gary E. R. Schwartz, and Daniel Shapiro, pp. 41–80. New York: Springer.
Baars, Bernard J. 1986. “What is a Theory of Consciousness a Theory of? The Search for Criterial Constraints on Theory.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 1: 3–24.
Baars, Bernard J. 1987. “What is Conscious in the Control of Action? A Modern Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Action.” in Learning and Memory: The Ebbinghaus Centennial Symposium, edited by D. Gorfein and Robert R. Hoffman. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Baars, Bernard J., ed. 1988. A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baars, Bernard J. 1992. Experimental Slips and Human Error: Exploring the Architecture of Volition. New York: Plenum Press.
Baars, Bernard J. 1993a. “Putting the Focus on the Fringe: Three Empirical Cases.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 2: 126–136.
Baars, Bernard J. 1993b. “Why Volition is a Foundation Issue for Psychology.” Consciousness and Cognition 2(3): 281–309.
Baars, Bernard J. 1993c. “How Does a Serial, Integrated and Very Limited Stream of Consciousness Emerge from a Nervous System that is Mostly Unconscious, Distributed, Parallel and of Enormous Capacity?” in Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Consciousness, edited by Gregory R. Bock and Joan Marsh, pp. 282–290. Ciba Foundation Symposium n. 174. New York: Wiley Publishing Inc.
Baars, Bernard J. 1994. “A Thoroughly Empirical Approach to Consciousness.” Psyche 6.
Baars, Bernard J. 1995. “Surprisingly Small Subcortical Structures are Needed for the State of Waking Consciousness, While Cortical Projection Areas Seem to Provide Perceptual Contents of Consciousness.” Consciousness and Cognition 4(2): 159–162.
Baars, Bernard J. 1996a. “Understanding Subjectivity: Global Workspace Theory and the Resurrection of the Observing Self.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 3: 211–217. Reprinted in Shear (1997, 241–248).
Baars, Bernard J. 1996b. “When are Images Conscious? The Curious Disconnection between Imagery and Consciousness in the Scientific Literature.” Consciousness and Cognition 5: 261–264.
Baars, Bernard J. 1997a. In the Theatre of Consciousness: the Workspace of the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baars, Bernard J. 1997b. “In the Theatre of Consciousness: Global Workspace Theory, a Rigorous Scientific Theory of Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 4: 292–309.
Baars, Bernard J. 1997c. “Some Essential Differences between Consciousness and Attention, Perception, and Working Memory.” Consciousness and Cognition 6(2–3): 363–371.
Baars, Bernard J. 1998. “Metaphors of Consciousness and Attention in the Brain.” Trends in Neurosciences 21: 58–62.
Baars, Bernard J. 1999. “Attention Vs. consciousness in the Visual Brain: Differences in Conception, Phenomenology, Behavior, Neuroanatomy, and Physiology.” Journal of General Psychology 126: 224–233.
Baars, Bernard J. 2001. “The Brain Basis of a ‘Consciousness Monitor’: Scientific and Medical Significance.” Consciousness and Cognition 10(2): 159–164.
Baars, Bernard J. 2005. “Subjective Experience is Probably Not Limited to Humans: The Evidence from Neurobiology and Behavior.” Consciousness and Cognition 14: 7–21.
Baars, Bernard J. 2007. “The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness.” in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, edited by Max Velmans and Susan Schneider, pp. 236–246. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Baars, Bernard J. and Alonzi, Adam. 2018. “The Global Workspace Theory.” in The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness, edited by Rocco J. Gennaro, pp. 122–136. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Baars, Bernard J., Fehling, Michael R., LaPolla, Mark and McGovern, Katharine. 1997. “Consciousness Creates Access: Conscious Goal Images Recruit Unconscious Action Routines, but Goal Competition Serves to ‘Liberate’ Such Routines, Causing Predictable Slips.” in Scientific Approaches to Consciousness, edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and Jonathan W. Schooler, pp. 423–444. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Baars, Bernard J. and McGovern, Katharine. 1996. “Cognitive Views of Consciousness: What are the Facts? How Can We Explain Them?” in The Science of Consciousness: Tutorial Essays, edited by Max Velmans. London: Routledge.
Baars, Bernard J. and Newman, James B. 1994. “A Neurobiological Interpretation of the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness.” in Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, edited by Antti Revonsuo and Matti Kamppinen. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Baars, Bernard J., Taylor, James and Taylor, John G. 1998. “Neuronal Mechanisms of Consciousness: A Relational Global Workspace Approach.” in Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates, edited by Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, and Alwyn C. Scott, pp. 269–278. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Newman, James B. and Baars, Bernard J. 1993. “A Neural Attentional Model for Access to Consciousness: A Global Workspace Perspective.” Concepts in Neuroscience 4: 255–290.
Newman, James B., Baars, Bernard J. and Cho, Sehyeong. 1997a. “A Neural Global Workspace Model for Conscious Attention.” Neural Networks 10: 1195–1206.
Newman, James B., Baars, Bernard J. and Cho, Sehyeong. 1997b. “A Neurocognitive Model for Consciousness and Attention.” in Two Sciences of Mind, edited by Seán Ó Nualláin, Paul McKevitt, and Eoghan Mac Aogáin, pp. 393–418. Advances in Consciousness Research n. 9. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Further References

Shear, Jonathan, ed. 1997. Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.