Ignorance and Imagination

"Stoljar's book presents a well argued thesis that gives rise to many questions and should stimulate many thoughts about the problem of experience."--Biagio G. Tasssone, Metapsychology Online Reviews "I regard Ignorance and Imagination as an extremely valuable book. There is a great deal of contemporary interest among philosophers in the epistemic solution to the problem of consciousness. Stoljar explores this solution with care, clarity, and a great deal of ingenuity. Anybody who wants to be fully informed about the epistemic view should read this book."--David Papineau, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Stoljar's book makes a fresh and invaluable contribution to the literature on consciousness. To articulate so crisply such a theoretically original yet pre-theoretically natural position; to argue for it so comprehensively and so agilely, and moreover in a way that clarifies tremendously the logical structure of the issues involved; to address the relevant considerations and alternative options so thoroughly and so relentlessly, amounts in the end to an intellectual achievement of the first magnitude. Most of all, it is a testament to the book's force that by the time one is finished with it, one finds it astonishing that its central thesis had never been seriously defended before. To my mind, with the publication of this book the epistemic view has earned its place among the handful of leading options for handling the problem of consciousness."--Australasian Journal of Philosophy