Nicholas Shea

Consciousness

  1. Shea, N. (2025), ‘Consciousness Facilitates Model-Based Planning, but is that Really Why Consciousness Evolved?’, Commentary on S. M. Fleming & M. Michel, ‘Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision’, Behavioural and Brain Sciences. [preprint]
  2. Fleming, S. M. & Shea, N. (forthc), ‘Where is the asymmetry between intelligence and consciousness?’. Commentary on A. K. Seth, ‘Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism’, Behavioural and Brain Sciences. [preprint]
  3. Fleming, S. M. & Shea, N. (2024), ‘Empirical approaches to quality space computations for consciousness: a response to Dołega et al. and Song’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [preprint pdf] [link]
  4. Shea, N. (2024), ‘Metacognition of Inferential Transitions’, Journal of Philosophy. [preprint pdf] [link]
  5. Fleming, S. & Shea, N. (2024), ‘Quality Space Computations for Consciousness’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [open access pdf] [link]
  6. Bayne, T. & Shea, N. (2020), ‘Consciousness, Concepts, and Natural Kinds’, Philosophical Topics 48(1), 65-84.[open access pdf] [jstor link] [doi link]
  7. Shea, N. and Frith, C.D. (2019)  ‘The Global Workspace Needs Metacognition’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(7), pp. 560-571. [open access pdf][link]
  8. Travers, E., Frith, C. D. and Shea, N. (2018) ‘Learning Rapidly about the Relevance of Visual Cues Requires Conscious Awareness’, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(8), pp. 1698–1713.[pre-print pdf] [link]
  9. Shea, N. and Frith, C. F. (2016) ‘Dual-Process Theories and Consciousness: The Case for “Type Zero” Cognition’, Neuroscience of Consciousness  [open access pdf] [link]
  10. Shea, N., Boldt, A., Bang, D., Yeung, N., Heyes, C. and Frith, C. D. (2014) ‘Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18(4), pp. 186-193 [open access pdf] [link]
  11. Shea, N. (2014), ‘Using Phenomenal Concepts to Explain Away the Intuition of Contingency’, Philosophical Psychology 27, 4, pp. 553-570 [pre-print pdf] [link]
  12. Shea, N. (2012), ‘Methodological Encounters with the Phenomenal Kind’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 84(2), pp. 307-344 [open access pdf] [link]
  13. Shea, N. and Bayne, T. (2010), ‘The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61, 459-484 [open access pdf] [link]
  14. Shea, N. and Heyes, C. (2010) ‘Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick’, Biology & Philosophy 25, 95-110 [open access pdf] [link]
  15. Shea, N. (2003) ‘Does Externalism Entail the Anomalism of the Mental?’, Philosophical Quarterly, 53, 201–213 [pdf] [link] [Jstor]