The Value of Consciousness
Analysis July 1, 2019 Uriah Kriegel 62 citations
Consciousness may have value, but researchers in different fields—epistemology, well-being, animal and medical ethics, philosophy of consciousness, and philosophy of science—have been discussing this question in isolation. This paper reviews those disconnected discussions and proposes a unified theoretical framework to make the contributions from each area more visible to the others, arguing that they all address a single underlying question: what is the value of consciousness?