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Blindsight and Super-Blindsight

Blindsight and Super-Blindsight

Declan Smithies September 10, 2019 June 4, 2020 Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness / perception

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Today, I’ll discuss the epistemic role of consciousness in perception. Human perception is normally conscious: there is something it is like for us to perceive the world around us. And yet there …

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John Schwenkler September 9, 2019 September 17, 2019 books

We are grateful to Declan Smithies for blogging this week on The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford, 2019). To read all his posts on a single page, please click here.

The Mental Lives of Zombies

The Mental Lives of Zombies

Declan Smithies September 9, 2019 September 4, 2019 Consciousness / Declan Smithies: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness

This week, I’m blogging about my new book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (Oxford University Press, September 2019). Thanks to John Schwenkler for hosting me. Today, I’ll start by situating the project of the book within a broader landscape in the philosophy of mind. What is the role of phenomenal …

3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon

3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon

Christian List August 16, 2019 August 16, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is level-specific.

2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument

2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument

Christian List August 14, 2019 August 13, 2019 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.

1. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: The Challenge

1. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: The Challenge

Christian List August 12, 2019 June 4, 2020 books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

This series of posts discusses some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Christian List.

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John Schwenkler August 12, 2019 August 20, 2019 books

We are pleased to have Christian List blogging this week on Why Free Will Is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019). To see all of Christian’s posts on a single page, please click here.