Aristotle’s Illusion and The Peripheral Mind

In the first section of chapter 7 of The Peripheral Mind, I discuss Aristotle’s Illusion, a tactile-proprioceptive illusion that is very easy to replicate by crossing two of your hand fingers, and touching the region thus created between the fingertips with a cylindrical object. Most people report that they feel …

Philosophical Explorations Virtual Special Issue on Self-Knowledge

The editors of Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action have recently put together a virtual special issue of articles on self-knowledge published in the journal during its first 15 years. Included are papers by Lisa Bortolotti, Thor Grünbaum, Andy Hamilton, Cynthia Macdonald, Catriona Mackenzie, Johannes Roessler, and …

The Peripheral Mind — general introduction

This is the first of a series of three blog posts about my book. It will introduce the main idea behind it, and highlight a few applications. The second post will present one of the chapters in a bit more detail. Finally, the last post will try to identify some …

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