ABSTRACT
Admittedly, the neuroscientifi c study of conscious properties is not much more than twenty years old, and plenty of gaps remain. Disagreements about evidence strength, data interpretation, experiment replicability and preferability of competing neural models and theoretical frameworks are plentiful. However pointed these shortcomings and disagreements may be, they occur against the background assumption that scientifi c investigation into consciousness will ultimately be successful in reducing conscious properties to something neural. To think these eff orts are missing something essential may seem pig-headed. is view is mistaken, and many of the best reasons for thinking so come from philosophically minded scientists and scientifi cally minded philosophers. In this and the next three chapters these reasons are investigated. In this chapter, certain epistemological and conceptual issues are hashed out.
