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Philosophy of Religion
  • After Nature: On Bodies, Consciousness, and Causality
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 19 (5-6): 229-250. 2012.
    Within John Dewey's pragmatic naturalism, consciousness, meaning, and value were conceptualized as ontologically real phenomena. During the century that has passed since Dewey's time, naturalism has come to be dominated by physicalist and realist perspectives within which the reality of consciousness, meaning, and value are problematic. Given this historical tension in naturalism, the present paper does the following: describes why consciousness, causality, and the body were all at home in Dewey…Read more