Aida Roige (University of Maryland, College Park)
How can we determine whether non-human animals are phenomenally conscious? This paper reviews the best naturalistic attempts to make attributions of consciousness to animals, and why they fail. To address the problems they face, I elaborate some guidelines for good consciousness attributions. I conclude that some of those guidelines pull in different directions, because of an underlying problem inherent in the field: what I call the Kinda Hard problem.
