
CONSCIOUSNESS
SIX RECENT PUBLICATIONS
LATEST POSTS
CONSCIOUSNESS
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Giulio Tononi on the Structure of Consciousness
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Is Consciousness the Brain Carrying Out Computations?
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Is Non-Conceptual Content a Kind of Given?
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Integrated Information Theory: The Cartesian Foundation (1)
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Integrated Information Theory: Information
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Integrated Information Theory: From Consciousness to the Brain (2)
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On Definitions of the Word ‘Consciousness’ (1)
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On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Dennett and Others (2)
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On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Merriam-Webster Dictionary (3)
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Theories of Consciousness Must Be Biological
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Questions About Consciousness
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Consciousness: Sapience & Sentience
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Is Phenomenal Consciousness Non-Conceptual?
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Kantian Experience in Contemporary Jargon
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Colin McGinn's 'Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?' (1989)
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Franck Jackson's 'What Mary Didn't Know' (1986)
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Frank Jackson's 'Epiphenomenal Qualia' (1982)
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Christopher Peacocke's ‘Sensation and Content of Experience’ (1983)
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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Nature Isn’t Fuzzy: Quantum Uncertainty, Inconsistency and Paradox
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Michio Kaku and Other Superstar Physicists on the Price of Bread
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Kitty Ferguson's *Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion and the Search for God*
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'Tenet': Does Christopher Nolan's Latest Film Make Scientific Sense?
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Kitty Ferguson asks: Why these constants of nature? Why this logic & maths?
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Scientists vs. Philosophers: A Debate (on YouTube) Between Physicists and Philosophers
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Elizabeth S. Anderson Believes That All Scientific Theories are Political
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Science’s Community Spirit Compared With Philosophy’s Individualism
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Is Constructive Empiricism's Use of Counterfactuals Illicit?
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The Scientific Problem With Panpsychism & String Theory - With Lee Smolin (1)
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The Scientific Problem With String Theory: Maths & Reality (2)
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The Problem With String Theory and Panpsychism: the Aesthetics of Theory-Choice (3)
PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC
METAPHYSICS
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Hume and Kant on the Nature of God
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What is Water? An Inquiry into Natural Kinds
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Empty "Analytic Metaphysics": Michael Loux's Vicious Circle of Modal Properties
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The Case Against Professor Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality
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Donald Hoffman's Philosophy of Consciousness and Reality: Conscious Realism
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Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism vs. Panpsychism and Idealism
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Donald Hoffman's Eye Candy: Conscious Realism's Mathematical Models
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Donald Hoffman on Consciousness, Reality... and Mathematical Models
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Physicist Lee Smolin on Intrinsic Essence... and (?) Panpsychism
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Artificial Life and the Ultra-Functionalism of Christopher Langton
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http://paulaustinmurphypam.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/susskind-steinhardt-universal-laws-of.html
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Is Ontic Structural Realism Merely a Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics?
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Michael Loux & Philip Goff Discuss Nominalism About Universals
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Some Arguments For/Against Analytic Metaphysics: Ted Sider's Realism (3)
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Some Arguments Against Analytic Metaphysics: Craig Callender's Clenched Fist (4)
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The Basics of Ladyman & Ross's Case Against Analytic Metaphysics
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
REVIEWS & ANALYSES
Latest Posts
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Brief Thoughts on Soundness and Validity in Philosophical Logic
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An Introduction to Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum Mechanics
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Can You Conceive of a Philosophical Zombie… or a Million-Sided Object?
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Artificial Intelligence (AI): All About Algorithms?
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Kant on Analytic, Synthetic and Synthetic A Priori Judgments
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Nothing: A Short Philosophical History
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Murray Gell-Mann on Complexity
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Nancy Cartwright on the Disunity of Science
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Kurt Gödel, Vacuous Paradoxes and Self-Reference
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What Does the Question “What is it like to type these words?” Mean?
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R.L. Wilder’s Constructivist Account of Early 20th Century Mathematics
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Metaphilosophy: P.M.S Hacker vs. Timothy Williamson
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Martin Heidegger on the Problem of Knowledge and Being
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Nancy Cartwright on the Disunity of Science
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The Obsession With Essence and Necessity Began With Aristotle
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What is the Meaning of “What is the meaning of Life?”?
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Leibniz’s Dream and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
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The Scientific Problem with String Theory (With Lee Smolin): Mathematics and Reality
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A Coherent Madman and His Little Self-Referential Problem
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Stephen Hawking’s Philosophy: Model-Dependent Realism
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Lewis Carroll’s Premises Paradox
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Hilary Putnam’s ‘Why Reason Can’t Be Naturalised’
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Christopher Langton: Artificial Life and Ultra-Functionalism
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Donald Hoffman on Consciousness, Reality... and Mathematical Models
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What is Analytic Philosophy?
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Frank Jackson’s ‘What Mary Didn’t Know’
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Logic: Does A → B have a Semantics?
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Mathematical Intuitionism and Anti-Realism Compared and Contrasted
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Donald Hoffman's Long Jump From Evolutionary Theory to Speculative Philosophy
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Donald Hoffman's Eye Candy: Conscious Realism's Mathematical Models
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Embodied Cognition and Anti-Realism
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My Letter to Philosophy Now - 'Heidegger's Ways of Being'
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Merely Verbal Ado About Nothing: David Chalmers, Consciousness, Facts
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Do Logic and Existence Go Together?
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Kripke on Wittgenstein: Kripkenstein [A Commentary on a YouTube Video]
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What is “Post-Analytic Philosophy”?
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The Case Against Professor Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality
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Scientism and/or Naturalism?
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On Definitions of the Word ‘Consciousness’ (1)
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On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Dennett and Others (2)
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On Definitions of 'Consciousness': Merriam-Webster Dictionary (3)
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Is Roger Penrose’s Science of Consciousness Spooky?
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Hume and Kant on the Nature of God
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MY TWITTER TIMELINE
PANPSYCHISM
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Sabine Hossenfelder Doesn’t Think… About Panpsychism
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Rudy Rucker's 'Mind is a universally distributed quality' (2014)
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Philip Goff's 'The Phenomenal Bonding Solution to the Combination Problem'
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John Horgan & Philip Goff on Panpsychism & Geocentrism
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Rudy Rucker’s Absurd Panpsychism
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Rudy Rucker & Chalmers: Rocks Do and Don't Have Minds
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Neutral Monism, Panpsychism and Intrinsic Noumena
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Goff Offers Us Non-Philosophical Reasons to be Panpsychists
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Goff on Big/Little Minds, "Composition" and Emergence (3)
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Goff's Panpsychist Conceivability-to-Possibility Argument (2)
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A Miniature: Panpsychism & Monism
METAPHILOSOPHY
Why Analytic Philosophy Papers Are Pretentious and Hard to Read
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Scientists vs. Philosophers: A Debate (on YouTube) Between Physicists and Philosophers
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The Logical Positivists’ Use of the Word “Meaningless”: A Retrospective
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A Review of *Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology*
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Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy: Argument, Clarity, Obscurity
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Philosophy Now - "What are the moral limits to free speech?"
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHS
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Professor E. Brian Davies's Mathematical Empiricism
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Raymond L. Wilder's Anthropology of Mathematics: Platonism and Applied Mathematics
PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
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Nature Isn’t Fuzzy: Quantum Uncertainty, Inconsistency and Paradox
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Let’s Eliminate All the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
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Deflating Quantum Mechanic: Pictures, Images and Analogies
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Smolin & Cartwright on Doing Physics in Quantum and Classical Boxes
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Carlo Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics
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Every Subatomic Particle Must Go
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Lee Smolin's Relationist [Meta]Physics
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An Introduction to Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum Mechanics
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Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Noumena (1)
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Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Ontology (5)
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Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Particles (4)
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Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Platonism (2)
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Ladyman and Ross's Philosophy of Physics: Structuralism (3)
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Anti-Realist Positions on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (1)
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Bertrand Russell on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (2)
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Ladyman and Ross on Quantum-Mechanical Particles (3)
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Ladyman & Ross on Quantum-Mechanical Particles: Things, Structure and Relations (4)
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Ladyman and Ross: Every Individual Must Go? (5)
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Does Philip Ball Really Move Beyond Quantum Weirdness?
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Slavoj Žižek's Philosophy of Science: Quantum Obscurantists and Ideology
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Did Niels Bohr Go Too Far?
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The Quantum World = the Maths
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Quantum Physics is Sexy (in the Philosophy of Mind)
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Quantum Dualism, Quantum Free Will & Quantum Consciousness
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Alan Turing Believed the Question "Can machines think?" to be Meaningless
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Is Everything a Computer?
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Advocates of Artificial Intelligence as Behaviourists
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Artificial Intelligence (AI): All About Algorithms
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Turing on Computer/Mind Computation & Intuition
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Is Everything a Computer?
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Does the Mind-as-Computer-Programme Idea Support Mind-Body Dualism?
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Computerised Robots and Sensory Experiences
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Strong AI: Does Intelligence Always Comes Along With Consciousness or Mind?
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Churchland (Patricia) and Searle on Dualism in AI & Cognitive Science
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
ROGER PENROSE
EPISTEMOLOGY
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Dani Rabinowitz, ‘What, if anything, does the a priori/a posteriori distinction come to?’ (2008)
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Rumsfeld's Logic of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
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Lisa Warenski's ‘Naturalism, Fallibilism, and the A Priori’ (2008)
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Peter Murphy's ‘Rewriting the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction’ (2008)
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Barry Stroud's 'The Significance of Naturalised Epistemology' (1981)
MY MEDIUM TIMELINE




SIX LATEST POSTS
BERTRAND RUSSELL
GRAHAM PRIEST
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Priest (Graham): Boolean Negation, Consistency, and the World
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Priest [Graham] & Heidegger Take Language on Holiday: the Nothing (2)
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Priest: Is Graham Priest's Dialetheism a Logic of Quantum Mechanics?
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Priest's [Graham] Contradictions-in-the-World: Zeno's Arrow and Legal Contradictions
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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
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Chalmers (David) on the Hard & Soft Problems of Consciousness
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Chalmers & Dennett on the "Easy Problems" of Consciousness
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Chalmers and the Evolutionary Point of Consciousness
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Chalmers on the Explanatory, Conceivability & Knowledge Arguments
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Chalmers on Type-A Materialism
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Chalmers on Type-B Materialism
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Chalmers, Conceivability, Zombies, Allah
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Chalmers: Merely Verbal Ado About Nothing - Chalmers, Facts, Consciousness
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Chalmers: Structure + Phenomenal Properties = Consciousness
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Chalmers' Naturalistic Dualism vs. Dennett's Third-person Absolutism
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Dennett & Chalmers on the "Easy Problems" of Consciousness
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Chalmers' Panprotopsychism (1)
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Chalmers' Panprotopsychism (2)
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Chalmers' Thermostat and its Experiences
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Chalmers on Physical Entailment
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Chalmers on the Abstract-Concrete Interface in Artificial Intelligence
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David Chalmers’ Fixation With Logical Possibility
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Chalmers' Fixation With Logical Possibilit
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David Chalmers’ Unanswerable “Hard Question” About Consciousnessy (2)
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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
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Wittgenstein - Comments on Wittgenstein's Beetle-in-a-Box Argument
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Wittgenstein - Was Wittgenstein a Language-games Relativist?
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Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Four)
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Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part One)
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Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Three)
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Heidegger & Wittgenstein: Parallel Spiritual Lives (Part Two)
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Kripke on Wittgenstein: Kripkenstein [A Commentary on a YouTube Video]

DANIEL DENNETT
JOHN SEARLE
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Searle: Three Quick Thoughts on His Biological Theory of Mind
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Ray Kurzweil's Systemhood Argument vs. Searle's Chinese Room Argument
PHILOSOPHERS (2)
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http://paulaustinmurphypam.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/ted-siders-ontological-realism.html
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Husserl (Edmund): A Short Note on the Notion of Phenomenological Reduction
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Kripke's First Argument Against the Descriptive Content of Proper Names
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Kripke's Second Argument Against the Descriptive Content of Proper Names
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LePore (Ernest) on the Indeterminacy of Meaning and Semantic Holism
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Minsky's (Marvin) Solution to the Problem of Consciouness: Higher-Order Processes