Category Archives: Philosophy of Mind

The Vast Unseen and the Vast Unseeable: Reconciling Belief and Nonbelief

Posted on March 27, 2014 by

Those who are not philosophically inclined can be divided, roughly, into two groups: There are the Naïve Realists who think that what is available to the senses or potentially available to the senses is all that there is. And then … Continue reading →

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The Tractatus Comico-Philosophicus: Rene Descartes

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

Rene Descartes Explains It All to You Here’s my method: I start by trying to doubt everything. I realize, however, that I cannot doubt that I am doubting, that I am thinking. Therefore, I exist. (I think, therefore, I am.) … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Zombies with Chairs in Philosophy of Mind, or Confessions of a Neo-Dualist

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

For Rebecca Goldstein Daniel Dennett called one of his books Consciousness Explained. He should have called it Why, Even with My Gifts, I Cannot Explain Consciousness Away. Dennett gives a compelling account of how various unconscious events occur in our … Continue reading →

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The Vast Unseen and the Vast Unseeable

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

Those who are not philosophically inclined can be divided, roughly, into two groups: There are the Naïve Realists who think that what is available to the senses or potentially available to the senses is all that there is. And then … Continue reading →

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It’s about Time

Posted on February 22, 2014 by

   A brief tour of fascinating (and lunatic) notions that philosophers (and a few poets) have had about time.  The Mystery of Time “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it … Continue reading →

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