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Toward a science of consciousness: the first Tucson discussions and debatesIn Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & Alwyn Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates, Mit Press. 1996.
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38'TT Ontology, the Hard Problem of Experience,-*'-*'Free Will, and Agency'In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & Alwyn Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates, Mit Press. pp. 2--79. 1998.
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639Naturalistic dualismIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Conscious Mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 359--368. 1996.
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34852Philosophers on Philosophy: The 2020 PhilPapers SurveyPhilosophers' Imprint 23 (11). 2023.What are the philosophical views of professional philosophers, and how do these views change over time? The 2020 PhilPapers Survey surveyed around 2000 philosophers on 100 philosophical questions. The results provide a snapshot of the state of some central debates in philosophy, reveal correlations and demographic effects involving philosophers' views, and reveal some changes in philosophers' views over the last decade.
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41Uploading: A Philosophical AnalysisIn Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.), Intelligence Unbound, Wiley. 2014-08-11.This chapter describes three relatively specific forms such as destructive uploading, gradual uploading, and nondestructive uploading. Neuroscience is gradually discovering various neural correlates of consciousness, but this research program largely takes the existence of consciousness for granted. It presents an argument for the pessimistic view and an argument for the optimistic view, both of which run parallel to related arguments that can be given concerning teletransportation. Cryonic tech…Read more
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102Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates (edited book)MIT Press. 1999.The first two conferences and books have become touchstones for the field. This volume presents a selection of invited papers from the third conference.
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Perception and the fall from EdenIn Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual experience, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Medical research : future directions in the genome eraIn Yann Joly & Bartha Maria Knoppers (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Medical Law and Ethics, Routledge. 2014.
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602The hard problem of consciousnessIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. 2007.The easy problems of consciousness are those that seem directly susceptible to the standard methods of cognitive science, whereby a phenomenon is explained in terms of computational or neural mechanisms. The hard problems are those that seem to resist those methods. The easy problems are easy precisely because they concern the explanation of cognitive abilities and functions. Once we have specified the neural or computational mechanism that performs the function of verbal report, for example, th…Read more
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39Consciousness and its Place in NatureIn Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction1 The Problem Arguments Against Materialism Type‐A Materialism Type‐B Materialism15 The Two‐Dimensional Argument Against Type‐B Materialism Type‐C Materialism Interlude Type‐D Dualism Type‐E Dualism Type‐F Monism Conclusions.
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23The Matrix as MetaphysicsIn Susan Schneider (ed.), Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Wiley. 2016.In this chapter, the author says that the standard view of brain‐in‐a‐vat scenario is endorsed by the people who created The Matrix. The author argues that the hypothesis that he is envatted is not a skeptical hypothesis, but a metaphysical hypothesis. That is, it is a hypothesis about the underlying nature of reality. According to the author, the Matrix Hypothesis is equivalent to a version of the following three‐part Metaphysical Hypothesis. First, physical processes are fundamentally computat…Read more
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24The SingularityIn Susan Schneider (ed.), Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Wiley. 2016.This chapter provides a rich philosophical discussion of superintelligence, a widely discussed piece that has encouraged philosophers of mind to take transhumanism, mind uploading, and the singularity more seriously. It starts with the argument for a singularity: is there good reason to believe that there will be an intelligence explosion? Next, the chapter considers how to negotiate the singularity: if it is possible that there will be a singularity, how can we maximize the chances of a good ou…Read more
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874Two-dimensional semanticsIn E. Lepore & B. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.Two-dimensional approaches to semantics, broadly understood, recognize two "dimensions" of the meaning or content of linguistic items. On these approaches, expressions and their utterances are associated with two different sorts of semantic values, which play different explanatory roles. Typically, one semantic value is associated with reference and ordinary truth-conditions, while the other is associated with the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world. The second s…Read more
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324Ramsey + Moore = GodAnalysis 67 (2): 170-172. 2007.Frank Ramsey (1931) wrote: If two people are arguing 'if p will q?' and both are in doubt as to p, they are adding p hypothetically to their stock of knowledge and arguing on that basis about q. We can say that they are fixing their degrees of belief in q given p. Let us take the first sentence the way it is often taken, as proposing the following test for the acceptability of an indicative conditional: ‘If p then q’ is acceptable to a subject S iff, were S to accept p and consider q, S would ac…Read more
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234Précis of Constructing the WorldPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (1): 217-219. 2014.
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455Imagination, indexicality, and intensions (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (1): 182-90. 2004.John Perry's book Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness is a lucid and engaging defense of a physicalist view of consciousness against various anti-physicalist arguments. In what follows, I will address Perry's responses to the three main anti-physicalist arguments he discusses: the zombie argument , the knowledge argument , and the modal argument
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83Has the biobank bubble burst? Withstanding the challenges for sustainable biobanking in the digital eraBMC Medical Ethics 17 (1): 1. 2016._BMC Medical Ethics_ is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies. _BMC __Medical Ethics _is part of the _BMC_ series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We do not make editoria…Read more
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42Availability: The cognitive basis of experienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 148-149. 1997.Although A-consciousness and P-consciousness are conceptually distinct, a refined notion of A-consciousness makes it plausible that the two are empirically inseparable. I suggest that the notion of direct availability for global control can play a central role here, and draw out some consequences.
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622Connectionism and compositionality: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn were wrongPhilosophical Psychology 6 (3): 305-319. 1993.This paper offers both a theoretical and an experimental perspective on the relationship between connectionist and Classical (symbol-processing) models. Firstly, a serious flaw in Fodor and Pylyshyn’s argument against connectionism is pointed out: if, in fact, a part of their argument is valid, then it establishes a conclusion quite different from that which they intend, a conclusion which is demonstrably false. The source of this flaw is traced to an underestimation of the differences between l…Read more
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140A piece of iMeThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 41-49. 2008.The radical view, the view we’re kind of pushing, is that the iPhone can be seen literally as a part of my mind. I actually remember things: in virtue of this information being in the iPhone, it is part of my memory. The iPhone isn’t just a tool for my cognition, it’s part of my cognition
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23A Role for Research Ethics Committees in Exchanges of Human Biospecimens Through Material Transfer AgreementsJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (3): 301-306. 2014.International transfers of human biological material (biospecimens) and data are increasing, and commentators are starting to raise concerns about how donor wishes are protected in such circumstances. These exchanges are generally made under contractual material transfer agreements (MTAs). This paper asks what role, if any, should research ethics committees (RECs) play in ensuring legal and ethical conduct in such exchanges. It is recommended that RECs should play a more active role in the futur…Read more
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418Intensions and Indeterminacy: Reply to Soames, Turner, and WilsonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (1): 249-269. 2014.
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545Minds, Machines, And Mathematics A Review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2 11-20. 1995.In his stimulating book SHADOWS OF THE MIND, Roger Penrose presents arguments, based on Gödel's theorem, for the conclusion that human thought is uncomputable. There are actually two separate arguments in Penrose's book. The second has been widely ignored, but seems to me to be much more interesting and novel than the first. I will address both forms of the argument in some detail. Toward the end, I will also comment on Penrose's proposals for a "new science of consciousness".
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2The expectation gap, risk management and the Australian HREC systemMonash Bioethics Review 21 (3). 2002.The Australian HREC system is experiencing increasing workloads and greater public scrutiny. Dr Dodds asks whether the system is sustainable and aims to encourage a constructive critical debate about the system. This article suggests there is a gap between the demands on the system and expectations of researchers, regulators and the community. The evolution of the HREC system reached a significant milestone of the publication of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Hum…Read more
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5A Peer Group Assessment of a Radical Pedagogical ActivistEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (5): 761-764. 2005.
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