Join Drs Elizabeth Schier (Philosophy) and Glenn Carruthers (Cognitive Science) as we play minecraft and introduce Dennett's notion of heterophenomenology (or the study of the experiences of someone other than the self). We introduce the roll of this notion in measuring consciousness, and touch on the difference between instrumentalist and realist understandings of such measures.You can also learn why philosophers have no friends.

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Join Glenn and I as we play #minecraft and discuss Kleiner (2024) "Towards a structural turn in consciousness science" published in Consciousness and Cognition. As part of the new papers series, this does get a bit technical so don't stress if some of it doesn't make sense to you.Here is the article we discuss: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810024000205

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Hi! Join Glenn and I as we play minecraft and discuss Nagel's (1974) "What is it like to be a bat?" from The Philosophical Review.The paper is availible at jstor but you will need library access.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2183914#ideas #philosophy #consciousnessstudies