Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: Putting it all TogetherI won’t pretend to have read even a semi-defendable portion of mind-body problem, much less theory of consciousness, writings to develop a…Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: Frank Jackson’s “Epiphenomenal Qualia”I can’t help but leaving my reading of Frank Jackson’s Epiphenomenal Qualia with a sense of wonder and a grinning awe. This, independent of…Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: “Does Interactionism Violate a Law of Classical Physics?”An endorsement of dualism or subjective qualia necessarily involves some sort of argument against pure physicalism, but philosophers making…Nov 27, 2016Nov 27, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: David Chalmers’s “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness”Consciousness isn’t an easy thing to figure out, and David Chalmers would be happy if we would stop acting as if it were. He opens “Facing…Nov 27, 2016Nov 27, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism and Reductionism: Rene Descartes’s “Meditation VI — Of the Existence of Material Things…Oh, to be young and naive.Nov 22, 2016Nov 22, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: “Love-related changes in the brain: a resting-state functional magnetic…Love is considered quite holy. Though there are certainly manifestations, the concept of love itself is widely thought of as ethereal…Nov 22, 2016Nov 22, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: C.D. Broad’s “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”In his section on “Emergent Theories” in The Mind and Its Place in Nature, C.D. Broad attempts to explain what emergentism is, and…Nov 13, 2016Nov 13, 2016
Gabe TugendsteinDualism & Reductionism: Thomas Nagel’s “Panpsychism”In the 13th Chapter of his 1979 essay anthology Mortal Questions, Thomas Nagel reviews the various premises and questions surrounding the…Nov 12, 2016Nov 12, 2016