PMS WIPS: Philosophy and/of Mind (and/or) Science Works In Progress Sessions PMS WIPS is an online forum for the discussion of works in progress in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and related areas. Submissions for PMS WIPS will be reviewed by co-editors Brian Keeley (Pitzer College), Pete Mandik (William …
I was interviewed for a column appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal on an intriguing case of possible conscious states in a vegetative patient (“There May Be More To a Vegetative State Than Science Thought” by Sharon Begley). In the case in question, scientists recorded brain activity in a vegetative …
Another group-blog for philosophy of mind has sprung into existence: Brain Pains. Contributors so far are Brad Thompson, Phillippe Chuard, and Robert Howell. Is the blogosphere big enough for Brains and Brain Pains? Of course!
Various arguments in contemporary philosophical work on consciousness boil down to alleged conceptual connections between ‘conscious’ and ‘conscious of’. To wit, some philosophers hold as pre-theoretically obvious what we can call “The Transparency Thesis”: When one has a conscious experience all that one is conscious of is what the experience …
