The Unity of Consciousness

Tim Bayne examines the idea that a human being can have only a single stream of consciousness at any one point in time. He draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to defend the claim that consciousness is unified, and he explores the implications for theories of consciousness and for our understanding of embodiment and the self.

Tim Bayne is a University Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College. His main interests lie in the philosophy of psychology, with a particular focus on consciousness.

1: The Phenomenal Field
2: Phenomenal unity: Mereology
3: Phenomenal unity: Closure
4: Motivating the Unity Thesis
5: How to Evaluate the Unity Thesis
6: Fragments of consciousness
7: Anosognosia, Schizophrenia, and Multiplicity
8: Hypnosis
9: The Split-brain Syndrome
10: The Quilt of Consciousness
11: The Body
12: The Self