Another attempt at popularising my work from over at idontknowwhatiam “I awoke at night – it must have been about 3am – and realized that I was completely unable to move. I was absolutely certain I was not dreaming, as I was enjoying full consciousness. Filled with fear about my …
Florian Cova and I are working on finishing up a meta-analysis about the role affect plays in free will and moral responsibility judgments. We are examining the effect first identified by Nichols and Knobe 2007 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00666.x/full). We are hoping to include studies that some of you have done but have …
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Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 Conference April 21-26, 2014 – Tucson, Arizona – University Marriott Park Scientists, philosophers, researchers, scholars, artists and humanists are invited to the 20th Anniversary of the first Tucson conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” held in 1994. The 2014 conference will reflect on 20 years of progress, …
I’m very glad to be able to kick off this symposium on Paul M. Churchland’s Matter and Consciousness, recently reissued in a new (third) edition by the MIT Press. Below the fold is a brief introduction to the symposium, followed by essays from our three contributors, Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna), William Ramsey (UNLV), …
The problem of personal identity is one of the most bewitching puzzles in all of philosophy. Until very recently, most philosophers subscribed to the view first advocated by the 17th-century British philosopher, John Locke. Locke held that our fundamental nature is given by our status as self-conscious, rational agents (“persons”) …
In Knowledge and Practical Interests, Jason Stanley (2005) provides a number of examples to show that propositional knowledge is not gradable. Consider the following two sentences: (a1) Sean knows that Obama is President better than Meredith does. (a2) Alyssa knows that Obama is President better than Philip knows that Clinton …
