Rescuing Logic From the Abuse of Bayes’ Theorem: Validity, Soundness, and Probability ..read more

10 questions ignored by philosophy Raymond Geuss, Agnes Callard, Tommy Curry, Kate Manne, Julian Baggini, Sundar Sarukkai, Maria Balaska, Sara Heinämaa, Robert Sanchez, and Robin R. Wang on contemporary philosophy’s blind spots. For this year’s World Philosophy Day, we asked ten leading philosophers from around the world, working in different philosophical traditions, what are the most important questions mainstream philosophy ignores or has forgotten about today. With analytic philosophy having dominated the English-speaking world and beyond, we can often forget that there are other philoso ..read more

“A quale is supposed to be “the qualitative feel of an experience” (Chalmers"), or it is such a thing as “the redness of red or the painfulness of pain” (Crick). Qualia are “the simple sensory qualities to be found in the blueness of the sky or the sound of a tone” (Damasio) or “ways it feels to see, hear and smell, the way it feels to have a pain” (Block). According to Professor Searle, conscious states are “qualitative in the sense that for any conscious state…there is something that it qualitatively feels like to be in that state.” According to Nagel, for every conscious expe ..read more

“One cannot but agree with Searle that the experience of tasting beer is very different from hearing Beethoven’s Ninth, and that both are different from smelling a rose or seeing a sunset, for perceptual experiences are essentially identified or specified by their modality, i.e. sight, hearing, taste, smell and tactile perception, and by their objects, i.e. by what they are experiences of. But to claim that the several experiences have a unique, distinctive feel is a different and altogether more questionable claim. It is more questionable in so far as it is obscure what is ..read more

“Granted that neuroscientists may not be using these common or garden concepts the way the man in the street does, with what right can philosophy claim to correct them? How can philosophy so confidently judge the clarity and coherence of concepts as deployed by competent scientists? How can philosophy be in a position to claim that certain assertions made by sophisticated neuroscientists make no sense? We shall resolve such methodological qualms in the following pages. But some initial clarification here may remove some doubts. What truth and falsity is to science, sense and nonsense ..read more

A Reply to Strawson: Physicalism Does Not Entail Panpsychism I begin to outline my compound reductionist account. Give it a read ..read more

The Power Of Philosophy: Why We Should All Care By Teddy McDarrah The discipline of philosophy is not regarded as some educational necessity. On the contrary, it is generally seen as esoteric, or only understood by specialists.  ..read more

4 Black Philosophers to Teach Year-Round Weaving philosophy lessons into your curriculum can tease out bigger questions about identity, human rights, and artistic expression. By Hoa P. Nguyen When Liam Kofi Bright was five years old, he spent a long time obsessing over the difference between a big number and a small number. Eventually, Bright decided that anything over four was big and anything below four was not. When his mom asked him, “What about four?” he started crying ..read more

Time In Two Dimensions ..read more

Philosophy of Religion Series: A Brief Exploration of Ātman in Hinduism and Anattā in Buddhism ..read more