has now officially begun and will run until March 2nd. Stop by http://consciousnessonline.com to get in on the action!
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The Overflow Cup Runneth Over
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Richard Brown
There has been a lot of action on the overflow front lately! It started with papers by Ned Block and Dennett and Cohen in Trends in Cognitive Science (Block’s paper criticized, among others, my recent paper on this stuff). These articles spawned a response by me here and here, which I still stand by. But [...]
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Explaining Cartesian Consciousness
Posted on February 10, 2012 by Richard Brown
In his classic paper “Two Concepts of Consciousness” David Rosenthal says “…if consciousness is essential to mentality no informative, nontrivial explanation of consciousness is possible” (2005 p 22). The claim is, roughly, that if all mental states are conscious and if there are no mental states that can occur unconsciously, then we cannot explain what [...]
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Scientist on the Science of the Self
Posted on February 4, 2012 by Richard Brown
Check out the new blog of Steve Fleming on the science of the self: The Elusive Self
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