I was recently listening to this great discussion on consciousness between Philip Goff and Richard Brown, and when they got to a discussion of conceivability arguments (e.g. zombie conceivability), Goff…
On the question of "Can computers think?", I've had a few posts focusing on the Chinese Room argument. In a nutshell, it's an argument against strong A.I. and the claim…
I recently finished Justin Brierley's book Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking With Atheists, I'm Still a Christian, a book of Christian apologetics. It's well-written and I recommend it…
I've posted about illusionism a couple of times, e.g. here and here. In this post, I want to discuss the frequent claim by illusionists that they are just "rejecting bad…
I really enjoyed this podcast discussion between Cathy Legg and Matt Teichman. The topic is C.S. Peirce, and particularly his theory of categories, or modes of being. As Legg and…
The Atlantic has an article on free will and Libet's experiments that has been getting a lot of attention the past few days. It is actually discussing work from several…
I posted yesterday on the question of whether idealism requires an external agent, a claim made by the philosopher Stathis Psillos. The discussion on Twitter continued today. His comments didn't…
I thought this was an interesting but odd tweet by the philosopher Stathis Psillos: https://twitter.com/StathisPsillos/status/1169913170779136000 I'm not sure whether he means ontological idealism (the ultimate foundations of reality are mental)…
I posted a couple of times recently about the Knowledge Argument (KA). In the first, I summarized my view as follows: 1. I’m not convinced this argument refutes physicalism.2. I…
I posted earlier about the Knowledge Argument, and have been thinking more about Philip Goff's simplified version. Here it is again: The Key Premise – A congenitally blind neuroscientist could never,…
