Consciousness Live!

Join me for a discussions with Barbara Gail Montero, Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, as we discuss themes from book in-progress on physicalism in the real world. Barbara’s website: https://barbaramontero.wordpress.com

Join me for a discussion with Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we discuss themes from her book The Unity of Perception

Join me for a discussion with Farid Masrour, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, as we take a deep dive into the philosophy of perception and naive realism

Join me for a discussion with J. Kevin O’Regan, ex-director of the “Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception” at the Université René Descartes, Paris, as we discuss his sensorimotor theory of consciousness.

Join me for a discussion with Peter Langland-Hassan, professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss themes from his book Explaining Imagination

Join me for a discussion with Josh Weisberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, as we discuss themes from his new book ‘Explanatory Optimism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness’

Join me for a discussion with Matthias Michel as we discuss the Perceptual Reality Monitoring theory of consciousness

Join me for a discussion with Jamie Woodhouse as we discuss all things Sentientist.

Gualtiero Piccinini joins me for a discussion of the nature and physical implementation of computation and consciousness

Steve Fleming joins me to discuss his new(-ish) book Know Thyself: The science of Self Awareness, the recent ‘IIT letter’, and a whole lot more! Steve’s blog post on IIT: https://elusiveself.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/iit-vs-gnwt-and-the-meaning-of-evidence-in-consciousness-science/

My struggle with technical issues continues! But after we work that out Eric and I have a really fun discussion about his new book The Weirdness of the World.

Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.

Join me for a discussion with neuroscientist Rachel Denison and to see me comically flustered. For the first thirty-minutes or so of our discussion I thought we were live-streaming when we weren’t! That hasn’t happened to me since the old days of Spacetime Mind. I must be rusty!

2024 is here and I am slowly coming out of my book-writing-induced coma to return to normal daylight activities. I have submitted the manuscript and we’ll see what reviewers think. In the meantime, I am slowly getting a line up for some Consciousness Live! discussions in the New Year. I started off the New Year … Continue reading Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)

Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark’s book: The Hidden Spring Mark’s wikipedia page

Join me for a discussion with Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michal Pitts as we discuss COGITATE -an innovative Open Science, preregistered adversarial collaboration focused on arbitrating between two leading theories of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW) COGITATE project website

Join me for a discussion with Claire Sergent, a Professor at the Université de Paris, in the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, as we discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the Global Workspace Theory

Join me for a discussion with Cevin Soling, a filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist, as we discuss his defense of solipsism -the metaphysical view that there is only one mind and that mind is Cevin Soling Cevin’s website

Join me for a discussion with Megan Peters, an Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, as we discuss her work on consciousness and metacognition Megan’s website Fund Consciousness Neuromatch Academy M-STEP paper

Join me for a discussion with Tony Chemero, a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss Radical Embodied cognitive Science find out more about Tony’s work

Join me for a discussion with Kate Pendoley, a philosopher currently at Hunter College, CUNY, as we discuss her work on the emotions. Kate’s website

Join me for a discussion with Jake Berger, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lycoming College, as we discuss the nature of perceptual experience Jake’s website

Join me for a discussion with Bernard J. Baars as we discuss consciousness science, global workspace theory, and more!

Join me for a discussion with Elizabeth Loftus, a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Criminology, Law and Society, Cognitive Science, and Law at UC Irvine, as we discuss her work on memory. Elizabeth’s website

Join me for a conversation with François Kammerer, a Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany, as we discuss illusionism about phenomenal consciousness Francois’ website: https://www.francoiskammerer.com

Join me for a discussion with Daniel Stoljar, a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, as we discuss physicalism, the epistemic approach to consciousness, conceivability arguments, revelation for introspection, illusionism, and more! Daniel’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/danielstoljar/