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Conceivability Arguments

Conceivability Arguments

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 25, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind/physics

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…

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A.I., Common Sense, and Thinking

A.I., Common Sense, and Thinking

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 25, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness

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…

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Brierley on Lewis’s Trilemma

Brierley on Lewis’s Trilemma

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 24, 2019
  • Post category:religion/Uncategorized

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…

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Illusionism and Bad Intuitions

Illusionism and Bad Intuitions

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 20, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

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…

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Modes of Being: Peirce and Davidson

Modes of Being: Peirce and Davidson

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 13, 2019
  • Post category:language/philosophy

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…

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Libet and Free Will

Libet and Free Will

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 12, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/neuroscience

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…

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Does Materialism Need an External Agent?

Does Materialism Need an External Agent?

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 10, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/physics/religion

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…

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Does Idealism Need an External Agent?

Does Idealism Need an External Agent?

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 9, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind/physics

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)…

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Strawson’s Mary-Go-Round

Strawson’s Mary-Go-Round

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 6, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind/physics

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…

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Hearing in Stereo: More on the Knowledge Argument

Hearing in Stereo: More on the Knowledge Argument

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 3, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

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,…

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