The Personal Nature of Notions of Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Role of the Personal in the Understanding of Consciousness(University Press of America, 1990) This book is his doctoral dissertation in which Baruss and his supervisor Robert Moore tried to circumscribe the state of scientific knowledge concerning consciousness in the mid-1980s and to better understand the disparity of notions of consciousness of the scientists and academics studying it.
An Examination of the Personal Dimension of Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Role of Individual Perspectives in Understanding Consciousness(University Press of America, 1990) This book is Baruss's doctoral dissertation, which aimed to chart the scientific understanding of consciousness in the mid-1980s and clarify the differences in notions of consciousness among researchers.