Experiments in Philosophy

The impact of psychological research on life's big questions.

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Consciousness

How do ordinary people think about consciousness?

Published on March 2, 2009 by Edouard Machery in Experiments in Philosophy

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How do ordinary people think about their subjective experience? Do they believe in qualia, as many philosophers such as David Chalmers and Ned Block claim? And are we mistaken in believing that our experiences have qualia, as Daniel Dennett asserts?

Justin Sytsma (Pittsurgh, HPS) discusses these issues, in a beautiful talk there.

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Edouard Machery is a philosopher of psychology and an experimental philosopher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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