Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyDennett Quines Qualia: A Bitter Taste Is Not a QualeWhat is it for a lemon to be “objectively bitter”? According to the philosopher Daniel Dennett (who died in April), it’s “to produce a…Jul 283
Colin MathersAnil Seth and the “real” problem of consciousnessA leading neuroscientist’s take on the hard problem of consciousness.May 148
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyExplaining Qualia?“The problem of explaining these phenomenal qualities is just the problem of explaining consciousness. This is the really hard part of the…Jul 107Jul 107
Colin MathersDavid Chalmers and the hard problem of consciousnessA review David Chalmers’ 1996 book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.May 75May 75
Colin MathersFree will: the compatibilist scamHow compatibilists redefine free will to mean something other than its ordinary definitionJul 72Jul 72
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyDennett Quines Qualia: A Bitter Taste Is Not a QualeWhat is it for a lemon to be “objectively bitter”? According to the philosopher Daniel Dennett (who died in April), it’s “to produce a…Jul 283
Colin MathersAnil Seth and the “real” problem of consciousnessA leading neuroscientist’s take on the hard problem of consciousness.May 148
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyExplaining Qualia?“The problem of explaining these phenomenal qualities is just the problem of explaining consciousness. This is the really hard part of the…Jul 107
Colin MathersDavid Chalmers and the hard problem of consciousnessA review David Chalmers’ 1996 book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.May 75
Colin MathersFree will: the compatibilist scamHow compatibilists redefine free will to mean something other than its ordinary definitionJul 72
Colin MathersDaniel Dennett and the hard problem of consciousnessConsciousness Explained … or consciousness ignored?Apr 226
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyDid Daniel Dennett Believe that Qualia Are Real?According to Owen Flanagan, Daniel Dennett happily accepted that there is a way things seem to us. However, is that the same thing as…Jun 292
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyDaniel Dennett and David Chalmers on the Easy Problems of ConsciousnessThe American philosopher Daniel Dennett argued that once all the “easy” (or functional) problems of consciousness have been solved, then…May 22, 20211