A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the
limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of …

I have taken an experimental approach to this question. Freely voluntary acts are preceded
by a specific electrical change in the brain (the 'readiness potential', RP) that begins 550 ms …

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us:
what kind of thing are we? The particular answer is that we are animals (of a certain sort)—a …

In this paper I want to discuss the way in which physical science has come to claim a
particular kind of hegemony over other subjects in the second half of this century. This claim …

Die erfolgreiche Einführung in die Philosophie des Geistes liegt mit diesem Band nun in der
dritten, nochmals überarbeiteten Auflage vor. Das Studienbuch informiert in systematischer …

A phenomenal concept is the concept of a particular type of sensory or perceptual
experience, where the notion of experience is understood phenomenologically. A recent …

Most 'theories of consciousness' are based on vague speculations about the properties of
conscious experience. We aim to provide a more solid basis for a science of consciousness …

Understanding the place of thought and feeling in the natural world is central to that general
comprehension of nature, as well as that special self-understanding, which are the primary …

I take it that physics provides our scientific understanding of that world at the most
fundamental level. However, its theories are perpetually provisional and the more or less …

Causal closure arguments against interactionist dualism are currently popular amongst
physicalists. Such an argument appeals to some principles of the causal closure of the …