
Philosophy and Fiction is my personal blog where I discuss philosophy of mind, fiction, and whatever. I also manage the Substack for After Dinner Conversation.
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Arizonans might recognize the local news story (or rather, stories) this chapter is inspired by. You know how it ends. Rest assured that if this bit makes it into my novel, justice will prevail. I don’t know how yet, but if I have to pull o...
In my last post I talked about why functionalists should dump causal closure. This post continues that topic somewhat, but here I’ll compare constitutive panpsychism to Sean Carroll’s physicalism—or what he calls poetic naturalism—as descri...
I first heard the phrase “causal closure” from online discussions, where I gathered it involved the standard model of physics, energy conservation laws, neurons firing in a brain, and an omniscient demon capabl...
HESIOD’S (c. 750 BC) Theogony is a muthos (myth) that recounts the genealogy of the gods and the beginning of the world, but nobody cares about gods begatting each other so I’ll skip that part.
A primordial Chaos (some random abyss) gives...
“Though humans were the masters of what we call culture…animals were the masters of the realm from which all these gifts had first originated.”
Ptolemy Tompkins, The Divine Life of Animals
Once I outgrew the hunt for plastic eggs with ca...
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Novelist with a background in ancient philosophy and a preference for mind-first metaphysics.
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