This publication is a transcript of the open disputation dedicated to the theme Ontology of Consciousness:
Naturalism vs Transcendentalism, which has been held at March 27, 2015 at the Institute of
Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University. Both positions, naturalism and transcendentalism, were
presented by the teams of two experts, who offered to the public their vision of correlation between
naturalism and transcendentalism as well as attacked the arguments of opposite side. Moreover, the audience
had the possibility not only to put the questions to experts, but also to make short remarks on the
subject of discussion. The following problems were discussed during the disputation time: the causal
conditionality of the consciousness, constitution of the object of nature and belonging of consciousness
to their realm, the possibility of the freedom inside the natural world, the perspectives of the naturalization
of the phenomenology. But the consensus has not been reached. The range of opinions reached by
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