In chapter 3 of Consciousness Revisited, Michael Tye argues that
· There are no special phenomenal concepts of the sort required by the phenomenal concept strategy for defending physicalism
· Accounts of phenomenal concepts developed by Block, Papineau, Balog, Loar, Perry, and Tye all have serious problems
· Although there are concepts of consciousness that are not a [...]
“Consciousness Online” is a web-based philosophy conference organized by Richard Brown from LaGuardia College, CUNY. Richard has done a great job bringing together some great papers presented by excellent philosophers around the globe. Papers are presented by video and by narrated powerpoint, and comments and discussion will also be handled online. It’s an interesting format, [...]
Clayton Littlejohn has accepted a tenure track position at U. Texas San Antonio! It’s an excellent job and well deserved–in my opinion Clayton is a top notch philosopher who has already made excellent contributions to the field and is one of the best teachers we’ve had at SMU. We’ll be terribly sorry to see him [...]