CONSCIOUSNESS

SIX RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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             CONSCIOUSNESS

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• Giulio Tononi on the Structure of Consciousness

• Is Consciousness the Brain Carrying Out Computations?

• Is Non-Conceptual Content a Kind of Given?

• Integrated Information Theory: The Cartesian Foundation (1)

• Integrated Information Theory: Information

• Integrated Information Theory: From Consciousness to the Brain (2)

• On Definitions of the Word ‘Consciousness’ (1)

• On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Dennett and Others (2)

• On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Merriam-Webster Dictionary (3)

• Theories of Consciousness Must Be Biological

• Questions About Consciousness

• Consciousness: Sapience & Sentience

• Is Phenomenal Consciousness Non-Conceptual?

• Kantian Experience in Contemporary Jargon

• Colin McGinn's 'Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?' (1989)

• Franck Jackson's 'What Mary Didn't Know' (1986)

• Frank Jackson's 'Epiphenomenal Qualia' (1982)

• Christopher Peacocke's ‘Sensation and Content of Experience’ (1983)

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      PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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• Nature Isn’t Fuzzy: Quantum Uncertainty, Inconsistency and Paradox

• Nature is Not Mathematical

• Michio Kaku and Other Superstar Physicists on the Price of Bread

• The Physicist Sean Carroll on (Scientific) Emergence

• Kitty Ferguson's *Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion and the Search for God*

• Things Themselves are Numbers: Contemporary Pythagoreanism

• Scientism and/or Naturalism?

• Do you realise just how tiny strings are?

• 'Tenet': Does Christopher Nolan's Latest Film Make Scientific Sense?

• Kitty Ferguson asks: Why these constants of nature? Why this logic & maths?

• Scientists vs. Philosophers: A Debate (on YouTube) Between Physicists and Philosophers

• Elizabeth S. Anderson Believes That All Scientific Theories are Political

• Lee Smolin on Time and on Thinking in Time

• Nancy Cartwright on the Disunity of Science

• Stephen Hawking's Model-dependent Realism

• Michio Kaku's Pythagorean & Postmodern String Theory

• Murray Gell-Mann on Complexity (2)

• Murray Gell-Mann on Reductionism (1)

• Against Platonism in Physics (With Lee Smolin)

• A Short Study of a Ketamine-for-Depression Study

• Philosophical Questions About the Image of a Black Hole

• Max Tegmark, Our Universe is Not Mathematical

• The Physicist Sean Carroll on (Scientific) Emergence

• A Reductionist Analysis of Reductionism?

• A Short Note on Empiricism & Science

• Are the Laws of Physics Necessary or Contingent?

• Nature is Not Mathematical

• Does Philosophy Impinge on Scientific Theory?

• E.O. Wilson Against Analytic Philosophers

• E.O. Wilson's Ethics isn't Ethics (Is isn't Ought)

• Einstein was a Fraud

• Ernan McMullin's 'A Case for Scientific Realism' (1984)

• Francis Crick's Deliberately Provocative Reductionism

• Science’s Community Spirit Compared With Philosophy’s Individualism

• Hypotheses & Observational Consequences

• Is Constructive Empiricism's Use of Counterfactuals Illicit?

• Lamarck & Darwin Compared

• Nancy Cartwright on Scientific Laws

• Susskind & Steinhardt: The Universal Laws of Physics?

• The Scientific Problem With Panpsychism & String Theory - With Lee Smolin (1)

• The Scientific Problem With String Theory: Maths & Reality (2)

• The Problem With String Theory and Panpsychism: the Aesthetics of Theory-Choice (3)

• Theories aren't Always Intellectual Constructs

• There are No Proofs in Science

         PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC          

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• The Basics of Logical Identity

• (A) The sentence A is not true.

• (A) The Sentence A is not true (Part Two)

• 19th Century Deductive & Inductive Logics

• A → B

• "It's logically possible that..."

• A Coherent Madman and His Little Self-referential Problem

• Acceptable Unsound Reasoning

• Conditionals and Future Contingents

• Deductive Inferences & Logical Rules

• Do Logic & Existence Go Together?

• Does Logic Have its Own Subject Matter?

• Four Brief Thoughts on Validity & Soundness

• Heterological & Homological Metalinguistic Statements

• Jaina Seven-Valued Logic and Contemporary Dialethic Logic

• Kant, Implication and Conceptual Containment

• Knowing/Proving What We Cannot Know/Prove

• Leibniz's Law & Intensional Contexts

• Lewis Carroll's Premises Paradox

• Logicism

• Material Logic vs. Formal Logic?

• Non-Deductive & Deductive Arguments

• One Paradoxical Case of Material Implication?

• Paraconsistent Logic: Inconsistency, Explosion and Relevance

• Popper's Falsification Principle and Second-order Statements

• Quick Thoughts on the Identity of Indiscernibles

• Self-Reflexivity and Self-Identity

• Simple Problems With the Law of Excluded Middle?

• The Basics of Logical Identity

• The Expectancy Paradox

• The Fundamental Nature of Modus Ponens

• The Laws of Logic

• The Paradox of the Barber

• Was the Verification Principle Self-referentially Contradictory?

• Why Empty Logic Leads to the Liar Paradox

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                  METAPHYSICS           

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• Hume and Kant on the Nature of God

• What is Water? An Inquiry into Natural Kinds

• What Do the Words "Ultimate Reality" Mean?

• Empty "Analytic Metaphysics": Michael Loux's Vicious Circle of Modal Properties

• The Case Against Professor Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality

• Donald Hoffman's Philosophy of Consciousness and Reality: Conscious Realism

• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism vs. Panpsychism and Idealism

• Donald Hoffman's Eye Candy: Conscious Realism's Mathematical Models

• Donald Hoffman on Consciousness, Reality... and Mathematical Models

• The Case Against Prof. Donald Hoffman

• Physicist Lee Smolin on Intrinsic Essence... and (?) Panpsychism

• Artificial Life and the Ultra-Functionalism of Christopher Langton

• An Ontology of an Electron

• 'What do materialists make of love and justice?'

• 20th-Century Causation (in Broad Outline)

• A General Discussion About Concepts

• All-embracing Conceptual Schemes?

• Are the Laws of Physics Necessary or Contingent?

• Conceptual Schemes and External Truth

• De Re & De Dicto Modalities & Counterparts

• De Re & De Dicto Modality

• Endless Intrinsic & Extrinsic Properties

• Functionalism Applied to Life

• http://paulaustinmurphypam.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/susskind-steinhardt-universal-laws-of.html

• Independent Properties & Ceteris Paribus Clauses

• Is Ontic Structural Realism Merely a Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics?

• James Lady & Don Ross on Metaphysicians' Intuitions

• Michael Loux & Philip Goff Discuss Nominalism About Universals

• Natural Kinds & Essences

• Nature isn't Mathematical!

• Necessity & Possibility are Interdefinable

• Nothing?

• Private Facts?

• Some Arguments Against Analytic Metaphysics (1)

• Some Arguments Against Analytic Metaphysics: Realism (2)

• Some Arguments For/Against Analytic Metaphysics: Ted Sider's Realism (3)

• Some Arguments Against Analytic Metaphysics: Craig Callender's Clenched Fist (4)

• Some New(ish) Bits to the Free Will Debate

• Sortal Identity

• Susskind & Steinhardt: The Universal Laws of Physics?

• The Basics of Ladyman & Ross's Case Against Analytic Metaphysics

• The Being of Man

• The Jungle of Rival Conceptual Schemes

• Truth: Its Metaphysics, Epistemology and Semantics

• Ted Sider's 'Ontological Realism' (2009)

• Alan Gibbard's 'Contingent Identity' (1975)

    PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE​

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• The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Some Distinctions Between "How" and "Why"

• Bogus Philosophical Questions

• Bogus Philosophical Questions: David Chalmers & Kitty Ferguson (2)

• Bogus Philosophical Questions: Logic & Metaphysics (3)

• Introduction: Objects and Their Individuation (1)

• Demonstratives, Sense-Data and Individuation (2)

• Proper Names and Individuation (3)

• Games With Proper Names and Essences

• Holisms (1)

• Holisms (2) - Donald Davidson

• Holisms (3) - Definitional Holism

• Imprecise Linguistic Expressions vs. Precise Propositions

• P is Determinately True or False

• Proper Names and the Possible Worlds of Possible Worlds

• Propositions, Facts & Sentences

• Realism, Anti-realism, and Evidence-transcendent Statements

• Sceptical Comments on Propositions as Abstract Entities

• What is the Meaning of "What is the meaning of Life?"?

• Dummett on Frege's Attempt at a Perfect Language

• Dummett: A Short Piece on Dummett's Theory of Meaning

• Dummett: Fregean Thoughts & Their Linguistic Expressions

• The Logical Positivists’ Use of the Word “Meaningless”: A Retrospective

         REVIEWS & ANALYSES      

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• A.N. Prior's 'The Runabout Inference Ticket' (1960)

• Anthony Quinton's 'The A Priori and the Analytic' (1963])

• David Lewis's 'Possible Worlds' (1986)

• Graeme Forbes's 'Substitutivity and the Coherence of Quantifying in' (1996)

• John Pollock's 'Epistemic Norms' (1986)

• Roderick Chisholm's ‘Philosophers and Ordinary Language’ (1951)

• Ruth Marcus's ‘A Backward Look at Quine’s Animadversions on Modalities’ (1990)

• Saul Kripke's 'Outline of a Theory of Truth' (1975)

• Saul Kripke's 'Identity and Necessity' (1971)

• Steven Yablo's  'Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility' (1987)

• W.V.O Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'

• W.V.O. Quine's 'On What There Is' (1948)

          Latest Posts

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• Brief Thoughts on Soundness and Validity in Philosophical Logic

• An Introduction to Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum Mechanics

• Can You Conceive of a Philosophical Zombie… or a Million-Sided Object?

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): All About Algorithms?

• Kant on Analytic, Synthetic and Synthetic A Priori Judgments

• Nothing: A Short Philosophical History

• Murray Gell-Mann on Complexity

• Nancy Cartwright on the Disunity of Science

• Kurt Gödel, Vacuous Paradoxes and Self-Reference

• What Does the Question “What is it like to type these words?” Mean?

• R.L. Wilder’s Constructivist Account of Early 20th Century Mathematics

• Metaphilosophy: P.M.S Hacker vs. Timothy Williamson

• Martin Heidegger on the Problem of Knowledge and Being

• Nancy Cartwright on the Disunity of Science

• The Obsession With Essence and Necessity Began With Aristotle

• What is the Meaning of “What is the meaning of Life?”?

• Leibniz’s Dream and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems

• The Scientific Problem with String Theory (With Lee Smolin): Mathematics and Reality

• A Coherent Madman and His Little Self-Referential Problem

• Stephen Hawking’s Philosophy: Model-Dependent Realism

• Lewis Carroll’s Premises Paradox

• Hilary Putnam’s ‘Why Reason Can’t Be Naturalised’

• Christopher Langton: Artificial Life and Ultra-Functionalism

• Donald Hoffman on Consciousness, Reality... and Mathematical Models

• What is Analytic Philosophy?

• Frank Jackson’s ‘What Mary Didn’t Know’

• Logic: Does A → B have a Semantics?

• Mathematical Intuitionism and Anti-Realism Compared and Contrasted

• Donald Hoffman's Long Jump From Evolutionary Theory to Speculative Philosophy

• Donald Hoffman's Eye Candy: Conscious Realism's Mathematical Models

• Embodied Cognition and Anti-Realism

• My Letter to Philosophy Now - 'Heidegger's Ways of Being'

• Merely Verbal Ado About Nothing: David Chalmers, Consciousness, Facts

• Do Logic and Existence Go Together?

• Kripke on Wittgenstein: Kripkenstein [A Commentary on a YouTube Video]

• What is “Post-Analytic Philosophy”?

• The Case Against Professor Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality

• Scientism and/or Naturalism?

• On Definitions of the Word ‘Consciousness’ (1)

• On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Dennett and Others (2)

• On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Merriam-Webster Dictionary (3)

• Is Roger Penrose’s Science of Consciousness Spooky?

• Hume and Kant on the Nature of God

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              PANPSYCHISM    

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• Sabine Hossenfelder Doesn’t Think… About Panpsychism

• Rudy Rucker's  'Mind is a universally distributed quality' (2014)

• Philip Goff's  'The Phenomenal Bonding Solution to the Combination Problem'

• John Horgan & Philip Goff on Panpsychism & Geocentrism

• Rudy Rucker’s Absurd Panpsychism

• Rudy Rucker & Chalmers: Rocks Do and Don't Have Minds

• Neutral Monism, Panpsychism and Intrinsic Noumena

• Goff Offers Us Non-Philosophical Reasons to be Panpsychists

• Goff on Big/Little Minds, "Composition" and Emergence (3)

• Goff's Panpsychist Conceivability-to-Possibility Argument (2)

• A Miniature: Panpsychism & Monism

   METAPHILOSOPHY    

 Why Analytic Philosophy Papers Are Pretentious and Hard to Read

• Scientists vs. Philosophers: A Debate (on YouTube) Between Physicists and Philosophers

• The Logical Positivists’ Use of the Word “Meaningless”: A Retrospective

• How to Write Like an Analytic Philosopher

• 'Is music a reflection of society?'

• 'Try meditation instead of philosophy'

• A Review of *Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology*

• Analytic Philosophy & Argument

• Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy: Argument, Clarity, Obscurity

• Bogus Philosophical Questions

• Bogus Philosophical Questions: Logic & Metaphysics (3)

• Do philosophy students use more drugs than other students?

• Generalisations About IQ Tests

• Intertextuality or Philosophy Ex Nihilo?

• Metaphilosophy: Definitions and Questions (1)

• Metaphilosophy: P.M.S. Hacker vs. Timothy Williamson (2)

• Metaphilosophy: What is Philosophy? (3)

• Metaphilosophy: Examples and Problems (4)

• Philosophical Notes (1)

• Philosophical Questions About Philosophy

• Philosophy Now - "What are the moral limits to free speech?"

• Post-analytic Philosophy?

• Scientism &/or Naturalism

• Simon Blackburn on Philosophy

• What is (Analytic) Philosophy?

• What is a(n Analytic) Philosopher?

• Strawson (P.F.) and Wittgenstein on Descriptive Philosophy

      PHILOSOPHY OF MATHS​

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• Professor E. Brian Davies's Mathematical Empiricism

• A Modern Day Mathematical Platonist - Alain Badiou

• A Critical Introduction to Mathematical Structuralism

• Platonic Mathematics

• Thoughts on the Logic of 19th-Century Mathematics

• Populations: Arithmetical & Geometrical Increase

• On R.L. Wilder's Evolution of Mathematical Concepts

• Raymond L. Wilder's Anthropology of Mathematics: Platonism and Applied Mathematics

• Raymond L. Wilder on the Foundations of Mathematics

• Anti-Realism, Intuitionism, and Mathematical Statements 

• Constructivism & Intuitionism

• David Hilbert

• The Necessary Nature of Numbers

• The Infinities of Cantor & Dedekind

• Frege (Gottlob) - Comments on Frege's Modes of Presentation

• Frege: Fun With Classes

• Frege: Numbers as Properties of Concepts

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 PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM           PHYSICS

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• Nature Isn’t Fuzzy: Quantum Uncertainty, Inconsistency and Paradox

• Let’s Eliminate All the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

• Deflating Quantum Mechanic: Pictures, Images and Analogies

• Smolin & Cartwright on Doing Physics in Quantum and Classical Boxes

• Carlo Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics

• Every Subatomic Particle Must Go

• Lee Smolin's Relationist [Meta]Physics

• An Introduction to Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum Mechanics

• Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Noumena (1)

• Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Ontology (5)

• Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Particles (4)

• Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Platonism (2)

• Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Structuralism (3)

• Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (1)

• Bertrand Russell on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (2)

• Ladyman and Ross on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (3)

• Ladyman & Ross on Quantum-Mechanical Particles: Things, Structure and Relations (4)

• Ladyman and Ross: Every Individual Must Go? (5)

• Does Philip Ball Really Move Beyond Quantum Weirdness?

• Slavoj Žižek's Philosophy of Science: Quantum Obscurantists and Ideology

• Did Niels Bohr Go Too Far?

• The Quantum World = the Maths

• Quantum Physics is Sexy (in the Philosophy of Mind)

• Quantum Dualism, Quantum Free Will & Quantum Consciousness

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     ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE​

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• Alan Turing Believed the Question "Can machines think?" to be Meaningless

• Is Everything a Computer?

• Advocates of Artificial Intelligence as Behaviourists

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): All About Algorithms

• Turing on Computer/Mind Computation & Intuition

• Is Everything a Computer?

• Does the Mind-as-Computer-Programme Idea Support Mind-Body Dualism?

• Computerised Robots and Sensory Experiences

• Strong AI: Does Intelligence Always Comes Along With Consciousness or Mind?

• Churchland (Patricia) and Searle on Dualism in AI & Cognitive Science

       PHILOSOPHY OF MIND     

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• Do Animals Have Concepts?

• A Challenge to Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind

• Against the Science of Mind

• Brain Languages/Grammars?

• Does Externalism Beat Scepticism?

• Eliminative Materialism

• Embodied Cognition and Anti-Realism

• Externalism & Accurate/True Representations

• Externalism in Broad Outline

• Internalist Arguments Against Externalism

• Modes of Presentation of Mental/Brain Events

• My dog believes that x is F

• Robert R. Provine's Neo-Behaviourism?

• Should the Philosophy of Mind be Constrained by Science?

• Some Newish Takes on Mind-Body Dualism

• Syntax as a Basis for Language & General Intelligence

• The Causal Relations Between Mind & World

• Thought Before Language

• Thoughts on the Privacy of Pain

• Donald Davidson's 'Mental Events' (1970)

• Tim Van Gelder's ''What Might Cognition Be If Not Computation?' (1995)

• Kenan Malik's 'Extended Minds' (2000)

• Jaegwon Kim's ''Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction' (1992) 

• Heil (John) on the Mind-Body Problem

              ROGER PENROSE

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• Is Roger Penrose’s Science of Consciousness Spooky?

• Platonist Roger Penrose "Sees" Mathematical Truths

• Penrose's New Physics of Consciousness (2)

• Is Roger Penrose a Platonist or a Pythagorean?

• Penrose on Brain & Mind: From the Quantum Scale to Large Scale

             EPISTEMOLOGY      

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• Dani Rabinowitz, ‘What, if anything, does the a priori/a posteriori distinction come to?’ (2008)

• Rumsfeld's Logic of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns

• 'Does reality really exist?'

• A Basic Overview of Reliabilism

• Inferences & Sense-data: Davidson Against Russell

• Knowledge, Justification & the Lottery Paradox

• G.E. Moore's 'Certainty'

• Jaegwon Kim's ‘What is Naturalised Epistemology?’ (1988)

• David Lewis's 'Elusive Knowledge' (1996)

• Laurence BonJour's ‘In Defense of the a Priori’ (2008)

• Lisa Warenski's ‘Naturalism, Fallibilism, and the A Priori’ (2008)

• Michael Devitt's  'There is no a Priori' (2005)

• Michael Williams's 'Epistemological Realism' (1991)

• Peter Murphy's ‘Rewriting the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction’ (2008)

• Problems With Naturalised Epistemology: Reasons & Causes

• Earl Conee's 'Contextualism Contested' (2005)

• Barry Stroud's 'The Significance of Naturalised Epistemology' (1981) 

• Proof & Doubt: a Non-technical Introduction

• Rationalism in the 17th Century

• The Cartesian Circle

• Putnam's 'Why Reason Can't Be Naturalised'

• Descartes: Meditations on Descartes' Meditations

MY MEDIUM TIMELINE

​              Kurt Gödel

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•       Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem in Simple Symbols and Simple Terms

• Kurt Godel, Vacuous Paradoxes and Self-Reference

• Godel: Proof, Truth & Meta-theory

• Godel's Incompleteness Theorem & Leibniz's Dream

• Deflating Godelised Physics, With Stephen Hawking (1)

• Deflating Godelised Physics: the Basic Argument (2)

• Kurt Godel's Theorems & Physics

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         BERTRAND RUSSELL

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• Bertrand Russell’s Neutral Monism and Panpsychism

• Russell (Bertrand) on True Belief & Knowledge

• Russell's Ontic Structural Realism? (1)

• Russell's Ontic Structural Realism? (2)

• Russell's Paradox

• Russell's Principia: Paradox, Axiom Systems & Set Theory

• Russell's Set of Everything

• Russell's Theory of Types

              GRAHAM PRIEST

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• Priest (Graham): Boolean Negation, Consistency, and the World

• Priest [Graham] - and Martin Heidegger! - on Nothing (1)

• Priest [Graham] & Heidegger Take Language on Holiday: the Nothing (2)

• Priest: Is Graham Priest Both In and Not In New York?

• Priest: Is Graham Priest's Dialetheism a Logic of Quantum Mechanics?

• Graham Priest's 'Logicians setting together contradictories: A perspective on relevance, paraconsistency, and dialetheism' (2002)

• Priest's [Graham] Contradictions-in-the-World: Zeno's Arrow and Legal Contradictions

• Priest's [Graham] Dialetheism: Quantum Mechanics... and Nothing (3)

           DAVID CHALMERS       

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• David Chalmers' Book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

• Chalmers (David) on the Hard & Soft Problems of Consciousness

• Chalmers & Dennett on the "Easy Problems" of Consciousness

• Chalmers and the Evolutionary Point of Consciousness

• Chalmers on the Explanatory, Conceivability & Knowledge Arguments

• Chalmers on Type-A Materialism

• Chalmers on Type-B Materialism

• Chalmers, Conceivability, Zombies, Allah

• Chalmers: Merely Verbal Ado About Nothing - Chalmers, Facts, Consciousness

• Chalmers: Structure + Phenomenal Properties = Consciousness

• Chalmers' Naturalistic Dualism vs. Dennett's Third-person Absolutism

• Dennett & Chalmers on the "Easy Problems" of Consciousness

• Chalmers' Panprotopsychism (1)

• Chalmers' Panprotopsychism (2)

• Chalmers' Thermostat and its Experiences

• Chalmers on Physical Entailment

• Chalmers on the Abstract-Concrete Interface in Artificial Intelligence

• David Chalmers’ Fixation With Logical Possibility

• Chalmers' Fixation With Logical Possibilit

• David Chalmers’ Unanswerable “Hard Question” About Consciousnessy (2)

• David Chalmers' Book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

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            WITTGENSTEIN          

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• Wittgenstein - A Wittgensteinian Discussion on Mathematical Truth

• Wittgenstein - Comments on Wittgenstein's Beetle-in-a-Box Argument

• Wittgenstein - Deflating Wittgenstein

• Wittgenstein - Was Wittgenstein a Language-games Relativist?

• Wittgenstein on the Language Games of Religion

• Wittgenstein: '+' and Rule-following

• Wittgenstein's Doubts About Doubt

• Wittgenstein's Generalisations About Generalisations

• Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Four)

• Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part One)

• Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Three)

• Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Two)

• Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Faith and Reason

• Heidegger and Wittgenstein vs. Science and Technology

• A Wittgensteinian Fragment on Solipsism and the Self

• A Wittgensteinian Take on Linguistic Rules & Meanings

• Kripke on Wittgenstein: Kripkenstein [A Commentary on a YouTube Video]

         DANIEL DENNETT           ​

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• Daniel Dennett vs. Roger Penrose: Strong AI

• Daniel Dennett's 'Heterophenomenology' (2013)

• Daniel Dennett's 'The Chinese Room' (2013)

• Daniel Dennett's 'Zombies and Zimboes' (2013)

• Daniel Dennett's *Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking* (2013)

• Dennett vs. Nicholas Humphrey

• Dennett: On Definitions of 'Consciousness' - Dennett & Others

• Dennett's [Daniel] Elimination of Qualia

• Dennett's Third-Person Absolutism & Chalmers' Naturalistic Dualism

• Daniel Dennett’s Chinese Room

• Dennett - Comments on Dennett's *Intuition Pumps*: Dan's Ad Hominems (1)

• Dennett vs. Nicholas Humphrey

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              JOHN SEARLE            

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• Susan Greenfield & John Searle on Artificial Consciousness

• Searle (John) on As-if Intentionality

• Searle on AI and the Brain's Causal Powers

• Searle on Brain-Consciousness Causation

• Searle on Mind, Computations & Computers

• Searle on Our Obsession With Scepticism

• Searle on Social Facts

• Searle on the Presupposition of the World's Existence

• Searle on Theory & the Piecemeal Approach

• Searle says "it's all syntax and no semantics"

• Searle: Three Quick Thoughts on His Biological Theory of Mind

• Ray Kurzweil's Systemhood Argument vs. Searle's Chinese Room Argument

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           PHILOSOPHERS (2)         

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• http://paulaustinmurphypam.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/ted-siders-ontological-realism.html

• Hume on Causation & Necessity

• Husserl (Edmund): A Short Note on the Notion of Phenomenological Reduction

• Inwagen's [Peter van] Extreme Metaphysical Realism

• Kant on Analytic & Synthetic Judgements

• Kant on Evidence-transcendence & Reason

• Kant: Scraps of Kant (1)

• Kant's Ulterior Motives?

• Kripke's First Argument Against the Descriptive Content of Proper Names

• Kripke's Second Argument Against the Descriptive Content of Proper Names

• LePore (Ernest) on the Indeterminacy of Meaning and Semantic Holism

• Lewis - Against David Lewis's Intrinsic Properties

• Lewis (C.I.) on the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme

• Loux [Michael.J]: Beyond Concepts and Representations

• Mellor (D.H.) on Ontological Pluralism

• Minsky's (Marvin) Solution to the Problem of Consciouness: Higher-Order Processes

• Nagel (Thomas) as Philosopher-Priest & New Mysterian

• Peirce (C.S.) on Abductions as Hypotheses

• Popper (Karl) on Causal-Logical Necessity

• Popper on the Infinite Variety of Facts

• Putnam on Context-Dependence & the Formalisers

• Putnam on Semantic Holism

• Putnam on the Normativity of Meaning

• Putnam on the Virtues & Vices of Ordinary Language

• Quine: Comments on 'Observation Sentences'

• Ramsey's (Frank) Redundancy Theory of Truth

• Ramsey's Paradox of Londoners & Their Hairs

• Ree (Jonathan) on Relativism & Objective Truth

• Rorty on Analytic Philosophy's a Priori

• Sartre's (Jean-Paul) Positions on Free Will

• Scruton (Roger) on Natural Kinds & Essences

• Sider (Ted): Basic Elements of Ted Sider's Metaphysics

• Smolensky (Paul): Is Perception or Logical Inference Primary?

• Stout (George) on the Mind-Body Problem

• Tarski's Convention T

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           PHILOSOPHERS (1)       

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• BonJour's Apriorism

• Brentano on Mental Acts & Mental Objects

• Carnap and Quine on Implication and Entailment

• Carnap's Conceptual Conventionalism

• Carnap's Modal Semantics

• Chomsky's Sortal: [Human]

• Churchland (Patricia) vs. the Functionalists

• Churchland on Non-Propositional Animal Thought?

• Cronin (Helena): the Marxist-Feminist Position on Sex-differences

• Derrida (Jacques) on the Signifier and the Signifier

• Derrida's Others

• Devitt on Analyticity & Conceptual Containment

• Devitt on Laurence BonJour's Neo-Rationalism

• Dewey (John): Logic's Relation to Science

• Donnellan (Keith) on Causal Reference

• Dummett (Michael) on Donald Davidson's Radical Interpretation

• Eco (Umberto) as Philosophical Realist?

• Haak (Susan): An Aspect of Foundherentism

• Hegel & the Being/Nothingness/Becoming Trinity

• Heidegger (Martin) on the Problems of Knowledge & Being

• Heidegger: My Letter to Philosophy Now