An independent, open archive of canonical work on consciousness, perception, and the mind–body problem — with ongoing commentary on the questions these papers still raise.
McGinn's influential argument that the mind–body problem may be permanently closed off to human cognition — what he terms cognitive closure. A foundational text in the contemporary debate on the limits of philosophical inquiry into consciousness.
The landmark paper proposing that attention serves as the “glue” binding separate visual features into unified object representations — among the most cited papers in the history of cognitive psychology.
An account of cinematic perception framed within ecological and event-perception theory, examining how viewers construct coherent narrative objects from sequential filmic presentation.
A reader's guide to McGinn's mysterianism — the claim that the very faculties we'd need to solve the hard problem may be the ones that close it off.
Treisman & Gelade's 1980 theory of attention, the “binding problem” it named, and why it still frames how we think about perception and representation.