Recently there has been a lot of interesting work (including some by one of our own) done on the epistemic status of first-personal reports on conscious states. The usual target in this tradition is the assumption of a certain kind of first-person authority concerning what consciousness is like for someone …
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I’ve recently been re-reading A. David Milner and Melvyn Goodale’s The Visual Brain in Action, as part of a project on the conscious control of behavior (concerning which I’ll hopefully have something to post rather soon). For those who aren’t familiar with the book, it presents a detailed empirical case …
Sadly, philosophy is rarely taught in US high schools. High Phi is a valuable project put together by Mitch Green (U Virginia) to promote and support the teaching of philosophy in US high schools. Kudos to Mitch!
this is the top story on ABC this morning. and if it’s in science it must be true cheersGlenn
Volume 3 of Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy (edited by Richard Schantz) is scheduled to come out early next year (for those of you familiar with it, the publication of this volume has been long delayed): https://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ph/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110196238-1%20 Volume 3 is entitled “Prospects for Meaning,” and it promises to be pertinent to …
It’s hard to believe but even in our day and age, there are plenty of fairly distinguished philosophers who defend the existence of mental life after brain death. My neuroscience colleague Sonya Bahar and I have written a paper explaining why what we know about the brain makes a strong …
