Cognitive Phenomenology

(cross-posted at Brains) Via David Rosenthal- There was a conference entitled “Theory Of Consciousness In Analytic Phenomenology And Philosophy Of Mind,” at the University of Bern, Switzerland, May 27-29, 2009. Podcasts of the talks are, for the next 2-3 years, at https://cast.switch.ch/vod/channels/g3bo2419i Talks are by David M. Rosenthal, Gianfranco Soldati, Andrea Borsato, David Woodruff Smith, [...]

The Envelope Please

As you no doubt probably already know the results of the philpapers survey are out. These results were especially costly to me as I lost a bet on how many philosophers would self-identify as dualists. I bet Dave $100.00 that it would be less than 10% and it actually turned out to be something like [...]

The Logical Problem of Omniscience

The problem of omniscience is usually formulated about whether human being’s having free will is compatible with God’s foreknowledge of our actions. The basic problem is that God know what we will do before we do it which means that it must be true that we perform this action before we actually perform it (knowledge [...]

4th Annual Felician Ethics Conference

I have presented at two of these conferences and each time it has been a fun and rewarding experience. I strongly encourage people to submit something! The fourth annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford campus of Felician College on Saturday, April 24, 2010, from 9 am – 6 [...]

Music & Language

Though I have never studied the philosophy of music I know that one of the central problems therein is how music is related to emotions. Many people have the feeling that, say, the minor key is sad and the major key is happy. How do we explain this? I have long thought that people use [...]

I’m a Young Philosopher!

At the end of April I will be presenting two talks at SUNY Freedonia as part of the Young Philosophers Lecture Series and Podcast. The dates and titles are as follows; April 29th “Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness and the Phenomenology of Belief” April 30th “Zombies, Super-Scientists, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness” Should be fun! I’ll [...]