Consider a contrast. The solar system contains my brain as a part; my brain is conscious; the solar system is not conscious (at least in any everyday sense – let’s set panpsychism aside for now). That’s enough to show that having conscious parts is not enough, all by itself, to …
Combining Minds aims to persuade you that minds can indeed combine. But first, we need to work out what that claim even means and why you might think they can’t. So here’s a little bit of intellectual autobiography on that topic. In the last few decades, philosophers interested in the …
It’s my pleasure to introduce our next Ergo symposium, featuring Christoph Hoerl’s “Experience and Time: Transparency and Presence” with commentaries by Elliot Carter (University of Toronto) Geoffrey Lee (University of California, Berkeley), Louise Richardson (University of York). I’d like to thank each of the participants for their great work!
This is a call for papers for a symposium in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on David Chalmers’ new paper “The Meta-Problem of Consciousness”. More than twenty years ago, David Chalmers published “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness” in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. He distinguished between the “easy …
I am delighted to announce the next symposium in our series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness. We have two types of symposia. For primarily theoretical articles, we will have several commentators from a variety of theoretical perspectives. For novel empirical research, we will have single commentators whose goal is …
On Monday, I gave a general overview of the main ideas in my forthcoming book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence. The key idea developed in the book is that perception is constituted by employing perceptual capacities—for example the capacity to discriminate and single out instances of red from …
Many thanks to John Schwenkler for running the Brains blog and for inviting me to guest blog this week about my new book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in …
