21 Citations
Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 2018
Theories of consciousness typically address the hard problem. They accept that phenomenal consciousness is real and aim to explain how it comes to exist. There is, however, another approach, which…
The illusion of conscious experience
- Philosophy, PsychologySynthese
- 2018
A new theory of phenomenal introspection is presented and it is argued that it might deal with the task at hand and defend the apparent absurdity of illusionism.
Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism
- PhilosophyDialogues in clinical neuroscience
- 2012
This paper is an overview of recent discussions concerning the mind-body problem, which is being addressed at the interface between philosophy and neuroscience. It focuses on phenomenal features of…
Illusionism and definitions of phenomenal consciousness
- Philosophy
- 2020
This paper aims to uncover where the disagreement between illusionism and anti-illusionism about phenomenal consciousness lies fundamentally. While illusionists claim that phenomenal consciousness…
The Normative Challenge for Illusionist Views of Consciousness
- Philosophy, PsychologyErgo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
- 2019
Illusionists about phenomenal consciousness claim that phenomenal consciousness does not exist but merely seems to exist. At the same time, it is quite intuitive for there to be some kind of link…
Cognitive Approaches to Phenomenal Consciousness
- Philosophy
- 2018
To my mind, the most promising approaches to understanding phenomenal consciousness are what I’ll call cognitive approaches, the most notable exemplars of which are the theories of consciousness…
If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 2015
If you’re a materialist, you probably think that rabbits are conscious. And you ought to think that. After all, rabbits are a lot like us, biologically and neurophysiologically. If you’re a…
Eliminativism About Consciousness
- Philosophy, Biology
- 2018
In this chapter, a radical philosophical position about consciousness is examined: eliminativism, which claims that consciousness does not exist and/or that talk of consciousness should be eliminated from science.
Not Disillusioned: Reply to Commentators
- Psychology
- 2018
I am grateful to the commentary authors for their contributions. The aim of this special issue is to give the reader a sense of the potential of illusionism as an approach to consciousness, and the…
Does Experience Have Phenomenal Properties?
- Philosophy
- 2016
What assumptions are built into the claim that experience has “phenomenal properties,” and could these assumptions turn out to be false? I consider the issue specifically for the similarity relations…
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Consciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts
- Philosophy
- 2008
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical…
Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory
- Philosophy
- 2000
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- Philosophy
- 1997
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Consciousness, Color, and Content
- Philosophy
- 2000
Experiences and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness…
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- Philosophy
- 1994
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Conceivability and possibility
- Philosophy
- 2006
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Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of Brain States
- Philosophy
- 1985
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Reflections and replies : essays on the philosophy of Tyler Burge
- Philosophy
- 2003
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The conscious mind: in search of a fundamental theory
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 1996
I. PRELIMINARIES 1. Two Concepts of Mind 2. Supervenience and Explanation II. THE IRREDUCIBILITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 3. Can Consciousness be Reductively Explained? 4. Naturalistic Dualism 5. The Paradox…