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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong.
The recent wave of reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts
This quantum philosophy kind of stuff isn't really my thing, but last year I got briefly quite interested in this paper by Adrian Kent, who is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics in Cambridge (and let's face it, it doesn't get any better than tha
Hello I'm Mediochre. I originally joined Skeptiko to talk about my research and experimentation with magic and then got invited to come here when things apparently went downhill. I would understand if one common way Skeptikonians that knew me would described me as was "that guy who hates morality."
This was raised in another thread, but is something I have been wondering about recently.
The question is how we can form a view on scientific questions when we don't have the training, knowledge or expertise to understand the scientific arguments. In a way it's a fairly fundamental question for
I have been having a private discussion about evaluating research, and the extent to which knowledge and experience influences this. I tend to go on and on about how I evaluate research, but it occurs to me that I should be asking others how they do so (before letting my own prejudices run amok ).
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