ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various philosophical perspectives on consciousness and subjective experience, including the phenomenology of Husserl, the nothing but reduction of consciousness and subjective experience to neural processes, and an epiphenomenal view of consciousness and subjective experience. Underlying the perceived difficulty of assimilating consciousness and subjective experience into a scientific world view characterized by a particular conception of the nature of the physical. Also discussed in this chapter are other issues, including the distinction between sensation and perception, the possibility of free will, the moral and forensic implications of reductionist points of view, and the importance of an emergentism perspective as a means of accommodating scientific explanation at different levels of phenomena.
