Episode 13: Neurophilosophy and Consciousness (with Brit Brogaard)

Hide your brains; the neurophilosophers are coming! Philosopher and Neuroscientist Berit (Brit) Brogaard joins Richard Brown and Pete Mandik on the SpaceTimeMind podcast to discuss what makes some states of the mind or brain conscious and others unconscious. Is this sort of question answerable from a psychological or philosophical perspective that makes no essential reference to neuroscience? Or, instead, are neuroscientific data unavoidable in this domain? And: can Brit go a full ten minutes without using the word “brain?"

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Hide your brains; the neurophilosophers are coming! Philosopher and neuroscientist Berit (Brit) Brogaard joins Richard Brown and Pete Mandik on the SpaceTimeMind podcast to discuss what makes some states of the mind or brain conscious and others unconscious. Is this sort of question answerable from a psychological or philosophical perspective that makes no essential reference to neuroscience? Or, instead, are neuroscientific data unavoidable in this domain? And: Can Brit go a full ten minutes without using the word “brain?"

(The edited audio of this episode is drawn from the second half of the video, "Brit Brogaard on the Metaphysics of Time and the Neurophilosophy of Consciousness" viewable on the SpaceTimeMind YouTube channel.)

Brit Brogaard's homepageBrit Brogaard - “Are Conscious States Conscious in Virtue of Representing Themselves?" Josh Weisberg - "Same Old, Same Old: The Same-Order Representational Theory of Consciousness and the Division of Phenomenal Labor" David Rosenthal & Josh Weisberg - "Higher-order Theories of Consciousness"Hakwan Lau & Richard Brown - "The Emperor’s New Phenomenology? The Empirical Case for Conscious Experience without First-Order Representations"