Commentary on Daniel Dennett on Sean Carroll’s podcast: Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image Part I

The last BQTA post was the unadorned transcript of the conversation between Dan Dennett and Sean Carroll published on 1/6/20, … More

Tom Nagel on The Mind-Body Problem

If a neuroscientist licks your brain while you are eating a chocolate bar, would your brain taste like chocolate? Eating … More

This is the last part of our freestyle excursion through John Heil’s fine essay. See Part I for some introductory … More

We are continuing our excursion through a modified version of John Heil’s article “The Mind-Body Problem”. See Part I for … More

Back to basics. Last year, we took a look at the introduction to John Heil’s excellent Philosophy of Mind (3rd ed, … More

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks have been doing a nice job of creating a fun and thought provoking series of … More

Dan Dennett is a materialist. Dualists think that there are two kinds of things in the world—mind and body. Dennett … More

In criminal trials, juries are often asked to figure out what kind of thought process was going on in the … More