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What is a Concept?

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:April 2, 2021
Post category:philosophy of mind

I have been surprised to occasionally see some philosophers on Twitter denying that there is such a thing as non-conceptual experience -- what I might like to call "raw" experience.…

Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:November 20, 2019
Post category:consciousness philosophy philosophy of mind

I recently read Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism About the Internal World (PDF warning), and in this post I want to focus on the first part of the paper, where he…

Kripke and Dualism

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:October 1, 2019
Post category:consciousness philosophy philosophy of mind

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…

Hello, World

Post author:Gabriel
Post published:August 5, 2019
Post category:artificial intelligence consciousness language philosophy of mind social science

My name is Gabriel, and I work in the areas of language, computing, and artificial intelligence. I also have a strong interest in consciousness and philosophy of mind, and this…