Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function..

Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are th….

If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come fr….

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that des….

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all invo….

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years..

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines..

I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that phil….

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, co….

I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impr….

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive..