Explaining What It’s Like

As some of you may know, in celebration of my one year in the bologsphere I have been re-posting some of my favorite posts that did not receive as much attention as they should have in a series I call “This Day in History (of Philosophy Sucks!)” (previous installments here , here, and here). Well, I [...]

Multiplying by Zero

The explanation for why division by zero is undefined often goes like this; To say that 6/3=2 is to say that 3*2=6. Now take 6/0=x we would have to find some number that when multiplied by zero gave us 6 (x*0=6). This we can’t do. So, since division and multiplication are inter-defined in this way [...]

Terminating Ambiguity

I have been working on my paper for my Terminator and Philosophy: I’ll Be Back, Therefore I am volume that I am co-editing with Kevin S. Decker. It is coming along nicely and is nearly ready to be sent to the press. Below is a link to the penultimate version of my paper which is [...]

Consciousness Online: 2nd Call for papers

Only three more weeks to submit a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber COnsciousness Conference. For details see the conference website.

What’s the Payoff?

As some of you may know I am no fan of the ambiguity thesis, which is the claim that definite descriptions like ‘the author of this blog’ are ambiguous as betwee a refferential and attributive use (see here and here). But what hangs on this question? Say it turns out that definite descriptions are ambiguous, [...]

Big Brain is Watching

A new study shows that researchers can tell what has been said and who says it solely by looking at MRIs! Besides the obvious ethical implications (imagine portable MRIs at every airport scanning passanger’s brains to see if they have recently talked to someone on a terrorist watchlist or you wife checking to see if you [...]

Brain Science and the Soul? As If!

I just came across this piece over at First Things where the author, a R. R. Reno makes the following ludicrous claim, We often hear that modern science requires us to reject traditional Christian views of the human person. The argument goes something like this: If we can see the physical process by which ideas are [...]

Expressivism and the T-Schema

Expressivist like Blackburn like to invoke deflationary accounts of truth as a way to save the common sense intuition that moral judgements can be straightforwardly true or false. I have elsewhere argued that this strategy fails to absolve the espressivist from giving an account of justification and, without some kind of modification, the expressivist is [...]

The Return of the Zombie

For those of you who like zoombies and Shombies Anton Alterman has his response to my response up over at Brain Scam…I will have a respone to some of his point up when I get a chance.