I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself..

There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not all the knowledge of the min….

I think you can have a science of the taste of chicken soup, or the taste of Chateau Latour. My point is only that knowing this science alone will no….

Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am n….

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music is philosophically fascinating. What it….

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they shoul….

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist..

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy….

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear..

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically.

I do think it's important to distinguish between intentionalism about consciousness and externalism about consciousness. Intentionalism says that con….

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!.

One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to c….

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experienc….

If I was going to sum up my approach to this whole mind issue, I would say this: the question is often formulated in a very bad way - for example, by….

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians..

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity..

Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think the….

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism..

I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine ….

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content.