On Having One's Data Shared

or at least diminishing puzzles about intentionality and representation, and it is for perhaps this reason that so much philosophical attention has recently focused on the problem of consciousness. Lloyd’s (2002) study suggests an approach to consciousness that, to our knowledge, marks a promising departure from the status quo. In the first place, Lloyd takes seriously work in phenomenology with which most philosophers in the analytic tradition are unfamiliar. This, by itself, is no reason to endorse such work, but if, as Lloyd suggests, phenomenology might be usefully integrated with functional brain imaging, then it is time for the analytic philosopher to think more carefully about phenomenological investigations of consciousness. Perhaps even more significantly, Lloyd’s work gives the philosopher, whether of phenomenological or analytical bent, a working example of how philosophical speculations about consciousness might usefully be married to functional brain imaging.