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…
Has Daniel Dennett ever directly addressed this apparent contradiction in his views? He believes that people who think philosophical zombies are conceivable are mistaken. See, for example, his discussion of…
In this post, I want to combine two things that I recently wrote about: I wrote that one of the challenges facing illusionist views of consciousness is the experiencer problem:…
I came across this Twitter thread from earlier this Summer, after I had read Keith Frankish's article on Illusionism. Follow the thread down from here: https://twitter.com/murraygabriel/status/1148786759553019904 It reminded me that…
Modern science struggles to make sense of consciousness. What would a coherent materialist / physicalist model of phenomenal consciousness look like? How can our current scientific methods explain how we…
Consciousness is mystifying -- in particular, we have made very little progress on the hard problem of explaining how it is that we have inner subjective experience at all. This…
