A lot of philosophers seem to take the higher-order thought theory of consciousness to be eliminative or deflationary about consciousness; of course, it doesn’t help that people go around saying that we need to get rid of qualia or even that we should endorse the claim that we ourselves are …
Yesterday I attended Dave Chalmers’ session of the Mind and
Language Seminar where we discussed his new paper on the singularity.I have previously seen him give this talk at CUNY and I was looking forward to the commentary from Jesse and Ned and the discussion that
followed. …
Next week I am heading up to SUNY Freedonia to give two talks as part of the Young Philosophers Lecture Series . Here is a rehearsal of the first talk which is my most recent attempt to show that Rosenthal’s HOT theory is committed to cognitive phenomenology
The special issue of The Journal of Consciousness Studies that I edited featuring descendants of selected papers from the first online consciousness conference is now out (including an excellent piece by Gualtiero that he bloged about previously)…it is entitled ‘Fishy and Here’ (from Clare Batty’s paper)…I hope that is meant as an …
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I plan on writing a series of posts discussing various themes that came up in discussion at the online consciousness conference over the next few weeks. I have long been a type-type identity theorist. There was a time when I thought that I would write my …
I have not been too good keeping up with the NYU Mind and Language Seminar like I had originally planned. Part of the problem was the Online Consciousness Conference (about which more later) the other part of the problem has been that I teach until 3:30 and the sessions start …
The Online Consciousness Conference has officially begun!!
Below the fold I have posted some thoughts on the higher-order thought theory of consciousness and introspection in case people want more consciousness!!
