Carroll, Chalmers, and the Hard Problem: a Commentary, Part I

What is consciousness anyway? And how did it get here? How can 3 pounds of brain tissue create conscious experience? … More

The Transitive Nightfall of Diamonds: the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West, February 27 to March 2, 1969

We have arrived at the 50th anniversary of some of the greatest live rock music ever recorded, the four night … More

Are you conscious? Am I? Maybe we are zombies, or simulated characters in a video game played by a more … More

Carol Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was a successful actress and singer in the early 1940s, who had a … More

Eliminative materialism is the only real materialism. This is official BQTA doctrine (not necessarily endorsed by all contributors). To get … More

In this season of thanks, most of us are thankful for family and friends, for health and happiness, and for … More

If science is the truth about reality, how can there be morality? Moral responsibility seems incompatible with science. Human bodies … More

Tim Scanlon’s final topic during his series of Townsend lectures at UC Berkeley was “Learning from Psychopaths”. This was … More

While hanging out in the philosophy library before the first of Tim Scanlon’s Townsend lectures, I finally got around to … More

Last week, Tim Scanlon visited Berkeley to deliver the Townsend Lectures to the philosophy department on Ideas of Identity … More