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The Introspective Peepshow: Consciousness and the ‘Dreaded Unknown Unknowns’

On February 12th, 2002, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was famously asked in a DoD press conference about the American government’s failure to provide evidence regarding Iraq’s alleged provision...

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The Crux

Aphorism of the Day: Give me an eye blind enough, and I will transform guttering candles into exploding stars. . The Blind Brain Theory turns on the following four basic claims: 1) Cognition is...

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BBT Creep…

“Given the inability of SDT-based models to account for blind insight, our data suggest that a more radical revision of metacognition models is required. One potential direction for revision would take...

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Introspection Explained

So I couldn’t get past the first paper in Thomas Metzinger’s excellent Open MIND offering without having to work up a long-winded blog post! Tim Bayne’s “Introspective Insecurity” offers a critique of...

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Zahavi, Dennett, and the End of Being*

  We are led back to these perceptions in all questions regarding origins, but they themselves exclude any further question as to origin. It is clear that the much-talked-of certainty of internal...

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