Tag: David Papineau
It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain
The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain.
The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain
After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch.
Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?
There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it.
A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism
“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead.
Is the Universe Causally Closed?
Materialists argue that dualism of mind and brain is not possible because of causal closure — by which they mean that all physical effects have physical causes.