Q&A about minds/brains
Update: Tiny Blue Dot Fellowship at Gonzaga University
July 20, 2018 // By Matthew Owen Having completed my PhD at the University of Birmingham-England, I am excited to begin a postdoctoral fellowship based at Gonzaga University generously funded by the Tiny Blue Dot
Neural Correlates of Consciousness & the Nature of the Mind
February 28, 2018 // By Matthew Owen Recently, I contributed a chapter entitled 'Neural Correlates of Consciousness and the Nature of the Mind' to Mihretu Guta's volume Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties, forthcoming from Routledge.
APA Pacific Meeting in Seattle: Five Places to Philosophize Outside the Conference Hotel
The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting will be in Seattle from April 12th-17th. For those of us who love studying philosophy, it will be tempting to set off the nerd-alert by staying cooped up in a hotel conference room during one's entire trip to the Emerald City. To avoid this travel fallacy, you may want to do a little philosophizing in the following places.
Where’s Grandpa? Alzheimer’s & the Persistence of Human Persons
As someone suffers from Alzheimer's disease and the neural tissue in their brain deteriorates causing their memories to fade, what happens to the person? That's the question I'll address in this post in honor of my hero, my grandpa, Keith Wallace Owen.
Jackson’s Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism
This post summarizes, Frank Jackson's infamous (at least in philosophy of mind) knowledge argument against reductive physicalism.
Does Neuroscience Say Madonna is a Material Girl?
What are neural correlates of consciousness? And what do they imply about the nature of the mind? These are the questions to be addressed in this post.