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May 1, 2011cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, frank Jackson, Keith Frankish, materialism, metaphysics, naturalism, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, qualia, reductionism, richard brown, zombies

Qualia on Philosophy TV

Richard Brown (ebullient blogger at Philosophy Sucks!) and Keith Frankish discuss qualia on Philosophy TV. Richard’s dog Frankie chimes in as well.

May 1, 2011Darwin, Dennett, grayling, humanism, Ludwig Büchner, materialism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, richard dawkins, Thomas Huxley

Long before Dennett, Dawkins, Grayling and others there was . . .

Ludwig Büchner. According to Wikipedia: The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen.

June 22, 2010anthony quinton, episteme, materialism, metaphysics, oakeshott, political philosophy, social constructivism, social epistemology

I was sorry to learn of the death of Tony (Lord) Quinton. My first contact with him was in the late-80s. Geoff Thomas, my Birkbeck tutor (who himself had Quinton as an examiner at Oxford), wrote to Quinton asking if he’d care to grant a young student an hour to chat about Oakeshott. Within the…