Uriah Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. He is the author of Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (OUP, 2011) and The Sources of Intentionality (OUP, 2011), as well as the editor of a dozen collections.
Recent work on consciousness has featured a number of debates on the existence and character of controversial types of phenomenal experience. Such debates bring up a more general question: how many types of irreducible phenomenology must we posit to describe the stream of consciousness? This book attempts an answer.