In this very interesting discussion between Richard Brown, Keith Frankish, and Philip Goff, Frankish makes the point that the core of his illusionist view is the denial of a phenomenal…
I'm glad I listened to this discussion between Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Consciousness Live, as Brown seems to have many of the same questions about illusionism that I…
I found that Keith Frankish's paper Quining Diet Qualia (PDF warning) was very helpful for understanding the Illusionist research program. In the paper, he lays out a few conceptions of…
I wanted to write a bit about Saul Kripke because I figured there are many people who have encountered him through linguistics and logic, but are unfamiliar with how his…
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'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…
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)…
