Entropy Article: The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness
July 28, 2020 // Matthew Owen Professor Kyumin Moon (Korea University) is editing a special issue of the scientific journal Entropy on the
Synthese Article on Causal Pairing, Hylomorphism, and IIT
October 1, 2019 // Matthew Owen Toward the end of last month, my article 'Circumnavigating the causal pairing problem with hylomorphism and
Article in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience on neural mechanisms of consciousness
July 12, 2019 // Matthew Owen Recently, I published an article I authored with my good friend, Mihretu Guta, in the academic
Journal of Consciousness Studies article on IIT & Aristotelianism
March 7, 2019 // By Matthew Owen Recently, Garrett Mindt edited a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the
‘Aristotelian Causation and Neural Correlates of Consciousness’ published in Topoi
October 23, 2018 // By Matthew Owen Recently, my research article Aristotelian Causation and Neural Correlates of Consciousness was published in Topoi: An
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
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'
Jackson’s Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism
This post summarizes, Frank Jackson's infamous (at least in philosophy of mind) knowledge argument against reductive physicalism.
Cerebral Organoids: Conscious Subjects or Zombies?
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.