For the conference and the special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies that lie behind this book, pairs of researchers were asked to tackle from different standpoints concepts of consciousness such as realism, representation, intentionality, information, control, memory and the self.
J. Scott Jordan is a professor in the department of psychology at Illinois State University. He publishes empirical papers on the relationship between perception and action-planning, and philosophical papers on consciousness, volition and self-sustaining systems. Dawn McBride is associate professor of psychology at Illinois State University. She has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Irvine. Her research investigates automatic forms of memory, false memory, and forgetting.