Adrian Downey is currently employed as a von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow in Ruhr University, Bochum. Previously he worked as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He completed my DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and has previously studied at the University of British Columbia (Visiting Research Student), the University of Edinburgh (MSc By Research Philosophy), and Queen's University Belfast (BA in Philosophy). In his DPhil thesis he developed an empirically informed, philosophical theory of conscious perception. He is presently expanding this theory in order to account for non-perceptual experiences by focusing on the example of non-perceptual experiences in psychopathology. What results will be a complete account of conscious experience. He is interested in the nature consciousness and his research is thoroughly inter-disciplinary in nature. As such, he is happy to read and think about consciousness using the resources and perspectives of many different fields and research traditions ('Analytic' Philosophy, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, and so on). He has subsidiary research interests in a number of areas-- the nature of mental representation, the ontological status of mind, the epistemology and ontology of science-- but all of these interests tend to connect in some way with his views about consciousness.