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44A Taxonomy for Disorders of Consciousness That Takes Consciousness SeriouslyAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3): 153-155. 2017.
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41Phenomenal holism, internalism and the neural correlates of consciousness: CommentJournal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 32-37. 2004.The target paper by Noë and Thompson is a very welcome addition to the literature on the neural correlates of consciousness. It raises a number of important issues, and the debate it will generate should go some way towards clarifying the conceptual terrain that we’re in. In this commentary I focus on three issues: the link between isomorphism and the matching-content doctrine; the argument against the matching-content doctrine; and the argument against experiential internalism.
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39The Case Against Organoid ConsciousnessNeuroethics 17 (1): 1-15. 2024.Neural organoids are laboratory-generated entities that replicate certain structural and functional features of the human brain. Most neural organoids are disembodied—completely decoupled from sensory input and motor output. As such, questions about their potential capacity for consciousness are exceptionally difficult to answer. While not disputing the need for caution regarding certain neural organoid types, this paper appeals to two broad constraints on any adequate theory of consciousness—th…Read more
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37Response to Commentators (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 86 (1): 223-229. 2013.
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31In search of the beatMind and Language 38 (3): 907-924. 2023.Beat perception has received very little attention from either philosophers of mind or philosophers of music. This neglect is unfortunate, for the topic is rich with philosophical interest. This article addresses two questions. The first concerns the nature of our experience of musical beat. Here, we argue that experiences of beat are forms of auditory perception. The second question concerns the nature of musical beat itself: what are beats? We defend a form of anthropocentric realism about bea…Read more
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24One of the many fault-lines within accounts of consciousness concerns the unity of consciousness. Some theorists claim that consciousness is unified—indeed, some theorists insist that consciousness is essentially unified. Other theorists assert that the unity of consciousness is an illusion, and that consciousness is often, if not invariably, disunified. Unfortunately, it is rare for proponents of either side of the debate to explain what the unity of consciousness might involve. What would it m…Read more
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22Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press. 2018.Philosophy of religion contains some of our most burning questions about the role of religion in the world, and the relationship between believers and God. Tim Bayne considers the core debates surrounding the concept of God; the relationship between faith and reason; and the problem of evil, before looking at reincarnation and the afterlife.
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21Agentive experiences as pushmi-pullyu representationsIn Jesús H. Aguilar, Andrei A. Buckareff & Keith Frankish (eds.), New waves in philosophy of action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 219--36. 2010.
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19Problems with Unity of Consciousness Arguments for Substance DualismIn Jonathan J. Loose, Angus John Louis Menuge & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.In the early modern period one can find unity of consciousness arguments in the writings of Rene Descartes and G. W. Leibniz, and in the recent literature they have been defended by David Barnett, William Hasker, and Richard Swinburne (among others). Descartes's unity of consciousness argument for dualism is to be found in the sixth of his Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes claims that his unity of consciousness argument was itself sufficient to establish substance dualism. Swinburne's c…Read more
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13Potential PersonsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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7Delusion and confabulation: mistakes of perceiving, remembering and believingCognitive Neuropsychiatry 15 (1): 319-45. 2010.
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5Delusions, Self-Deception and Affective Influences on Belief-Formation (edited book)Psychology Press. 2008.This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception entirely distinct phenomena, or might some forms of self-deception also qualify as delusional? To what extent might models of self-deception and delusion share common factors? In what ways do affect and motivation enter into normal belief-formation, a…Read more
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4Is Consciousnes Multisensory?In Dustin Stokes, Stephen Biggs & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Perception and Its Modalities, Oxford University Press. pp. 95-132. 2014.Is consciousness multisensory? Obviously it is multisensory in certain ways. Human beings typically possess the capacity to have experiences in at least the five familiar sensory modalities, and quite possibly in a number of other less commonly recognised modalities as well. But there are other respects in which it is far from obvious that consciousness is multisensory. This chapter is concerned with one such respect. Οur concern here is with whether consciousness contains experiences associated…Read more
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4Free Will and the Phenomenology of AgencyIn Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith & Neil Levy (eds.), Routledge Companion to Free Will., Routledge. pp. 633-644. 2016.
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1Monothematic delusions, empiricism, and framework beliefsPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 11 (1): 1. 2004.
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1Co-consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3): 79-92. 2001.This is a review of Barry Dainton's ‘Stream of Consciousness’. While much that is written about the unity of consciousness does, as Dainton says, traffic in vague metaphors and exaggerated claims, Dainton's book is a superb example of sober thinking and meticulous attention to detail. Stream of Consciousness can be roughly divided into three projects, projects that are bound together by co-consciousness. In the present context ‘co-consciousness’ refers to the relation that experiences have when…Read more
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A participatory model of the atonementIn Yujin Nagasawa & Erik J. Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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Peer Commentary on ‘Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness?’Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1): 29-86. 2004.
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Belief and Its BedfellowsIn Nikolaj Nottelmann (ed.), New Essays on Belief: Constitution, Content and Structure, Palgrave. 2013.
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The multisensory nature of perceptual consciousnessIn Christopher Hill & David Bennett (eds.), Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, Mit Press. pp. 15-36. 2014.
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Multisensory perceptionIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Delusion and the Norms of RationalityIn Timothy Joseph Lane & Tzu-Wei Hung (eds.), Rationality: Constraints and Contexts, Elsevier Academic Press. pp. 77-94. 2016.
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