Two Questions Regarding Hume’s Account of Relations of Ideas

I have always had two interpretational questions about Hume’s account of relations of ideas. These issues come up in my into class all the time and I am constantly foiled in my attempt to locate an exact answer either in Hume’s corpus or in the secondary literature. Maybe someone else knows where I should look… [...]

Reflections on Zoombies and Shombies Or: After the Showdown at the APA

The last three weeks have been extremely hectic for me. Starting with the Long Island Philosophical Society meeting (which was at LaGuardia and which I helped organize), and then the Pacific apa, and then when I got back the Felician Ethics conference (more about that later)…not to mention a pile of papers to grade and [...]

The Kripkean Response to Kripke’s Modal Argument against Physicalism

(cross-posted at Brains) Well it’s been a while since I have posted anything here…I have been so busy with Consciousness Online and my teaching load that I simply haven’t had time to do anything else! Today I am leaving for the apa in Vancouver where I will present The Reverse-Zombie Argument against Dualism which should [...]