# Perception, Causation, and Objectivity Consciousness editors Johannes Roessler, Hemdat Lerman, Naomi Eilan **Opening (not a real abstract):** Consciousness and Self-Consciousness This series arises from the activities of the Consciousness and Self-Consciousness Research Centre at Warwick University. The present volume is one of three interdisciplinary volumes growing out of an AHRC Project hosted by the Centre between 2004 and 2008, on ‘Causal Understanding: Empirical and Theoretical Foundations for a New Approach’. Much of the thought behind the project on causal understanding was informed by the idea that making progress on questions regarding consciousness and self-consciousness requires, amongst other things, getting clearer about the extent to which causal understanding is implicated in our awareness of and interaction with our environment, as well as in our grasp of our own place in it. This in turn, however, also requires getting clearer about what exactly causal understanding consists in, and