Consciousness?

CHUCK TUCKER (960502)

        Writing about definitions of consciousness encouraged me to
        return to a favorite document - Dewey and Bentley's (1949)
        KNOWING AND THE KNOWN for this "firm name" of consciousness:

          The word has disappeared from nearly all research but
          survives under the various disguises in knowledge theory.
          Where substantively used as something other than a synonym
          of a comparable word, "awareness," we can find under our
          postulation no value whatever in it, or in its disguises,
          or in the attitudes of inquiry it implies (291).

        We who find problems with realist epistemology should also be
        extremely careful about the use of the word "consciousness."