Web resources

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Category:Consciousness
http://consc.net/online
http://www.theassc.org/
http://www.frontiersin.org/consciousness_research http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622810/description#description
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/

Books (alphabetic by title, asterisks indicate highly recommended books)

Being No-One
Thomas Metzinger
MIT Press, 2004
(A now classic tome describing Metzinger’s theory that no such thing as a self exists.  This is a heavyweight book but is full of riches. See also ‘*The Ego Tunnel’ below.)

(The) Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
Max Velmans and Susan Schneider (Eds)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
(A useful reference, a bit older than the Oxford book below, but with longer more substantial entries)

(The) Character of Consciousness
David Chalmers
Oxford University Press, 2010
(His first major work on consciousness since 1996 when he defined the 'hard' and 'easy' problems. I haven't read it yet but definitely intend to!)

Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
Bernard Baars and Nicole Gage
Academic Press, 2007
(A useful introductory textbook that places consciousness at the heart of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.)

Consciousness: An Introduction
Susan Blackmore
Hodder Education, 2010
(A basic introductory text, readable but doesn’t go very deep.)

*Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi
Basic Books, 2000
(Quite an old book now, but very well written and thought provoking.  One can see here the seeds of Tononi’s more recent ‘information integration theory of consciousness’.)

*Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Neural theories
David Rose
Oxford University Press, 2006
(A very clear summary of current perspectives in consciousness science, covers quite a lot of ground and covers it well.)

*(The) Ego Tunnel
Thomas Metzinger
Basic Books, 2010
An excellent and highly readable precis of Metzinger's ideas on consciousness, especially those about the existence (or nonexistence) of the 'self'. According to Metzinger, everything we experience is 'a virtual self in a virtual reality'.

Embodiment and the Inner Life:  Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds
Murray Shanahan
Oxford University Press, 2010
(A very recent integration of ideas from global workspace theory, neurodynamics and cognitive neuroscience, and inner simulation theory, well worth reading.)

Encyclopaedia of Consciousness
William Banks (Ed)
Academic Press, 2009
(A dauntingly large but comprehensive reference, with longer articles and the Companion, arranged by subject rather than alphabetically.)

(The) Feeling of What Happens
Antonio Damasio
Vintage, 2000
(A now classic book discussing how consciousness may depend on the body, and on emotional responses. It fleshes out – no pun intended – Damasio’s ‘somatic marker’ hypothesis. See also his very recent Self Comes to Mind (below).)

Introduction to Consciousness
Arne Dietrich
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
(An introductory textbook, very well written and comprehensive though not totally up to date)

(The) Oxford Companion to Consciousness
Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, and Patrick Wilken (Eds)
Oxford University Press, 2009
(An excellent reference book with short entries, arranged alphabetically, on almost all topics of relevance to consciousness science.)

*(The) Quest for Consciousness
Christof Koch
Roberts & Co, 2004
(A useful book by a pioneer in the field, who first popularized the notion of ‘neural correlates of consciousness’ with the late Francis Crick.  Critics, however, would say that this book is more about visual perception than consciousness, and Koch’s own thinking seems to have changed since 2004.  Still, a very good contribution.)

*Ravenous for Wisdom
Daniel Bor
Basic Books, 2011 (forthcoming)
A very up-to-date (popular) account of the new science of consciousness, by our very own Dan Bor! Obviously essential reading when it appears.

Self Comes to Mind
Antonio Damasio
William Heinemann, 2010
A ten-year in the making update of Damasio's classic The Feeling of What Happens (above). Focuses more on subcortical mechanisms and has recieved somewhat mixed responses (e.g., New York Times review here)

(The) Unity of Consciousness
Tim Bayne
Oxford University Press, 2010
A first book by an extremely promising and readable philosopher on an understudied theme in consciousness science, which is the notion that consciousness is at all times unified. Bayne defends this idea against challenges from various disorders of consciousness and explores exactly what it means to claim that consciousness has a unity. I haven't read it yet but intend to.