What consciousness is, I don't have a clue…
David Chalmers is featured in this Wednesday’s episode of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (starts around 7:35) with an appearance by the New York Consciousness Collective and the Zombie Blues!
Category: Consciousness
The Conceivability of Shombies
I just noticed that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zombies was recently updated (authored by Robert Kirk, who’s book I reviewed for phil. psych). I was pleased to see that my JCS paper was mentioned in the “anti-zombie argument for physicalism” section. But Kirk cites my paper as …
Workshop: Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness
In just a little less than two weeks, New York City will be home to the second annual Experimental Philosophy Workshop. This year’s workshop will be highlighting research in the experimental philosophy of consciousness, with presentations by Shaun Nichols, Edouard Machery and Kurt Gray and commentaries by Alvin Goldman, David …
Same-Order Theories and the Failure of Phenomenal Intimacy
Perusing the new issue of Philosophical Studies that came out I came across Chad Kidd’s paper Phenomenal Consciousness with Infallible Self-Representation, which happens to be freely available on Phil Studies home page. The paper is interesting and aims to respond to the challenge raised by Josh Weisberg’s paper Same Old, Same Old: The …
OCC Program Finalized
I am pleased to announce that the program for the third Online Consciousness Conference is finalized and is available at the conference website: https://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com/ The conference begins February 18th and lasts until March 4th. Papers (but not commentaries) will be available to read one week before the conference starts February 11th. …
Call for Abstracts: Experimental Philosophy
Mark Phelan is organizing the second annual Experimental Philosophy Workshop in New York City, and the Call for Abstracts has just been posted. Abstracts are only 1,000 words and can present either experimental results or more theoretical work. The deadline is February 10th. The conference itself will take place on …
List of arguments against physicalism about consciousness
Many have a strong intuition that consciousness cannot be a brain process, but what are the arguments for this claim? I’m listing every one I can think of below. If you know any others, please let me know in the comments this could be a useful quick-and-dirty resource for people …