title: A study in consciousness;: A contribution to the science of psychology,
author: Annie Wood Besant
description: Study in the growth and development of consciousness by Theosophical leader.
zlib_text: The Nature of Consciousness
  In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative
  and radical account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one
  that has signiﬁcant consequences for attempts to ﬁnd a place for it in
  the natural order. The most signiﬁcant feature of consciousness is its
  dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and
  that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philo-
  sophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving
  debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experi-
  ence are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards
  non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts
  to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book
  will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind
  and language, psychology, and cognitive science.
  MARK ROWLANDS is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cork.
  His pub