Month: December 2012
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Thought and Consciousness – A Crucial Contemporary Debate
An important book came out this year. The volume ‘Cognitive Phenomenology’, edited by Tim Bayne and Michelle Montague, collects articles for and against the thesis that thought is a kind of conscious experience. This debate is both deeply strange and deeply important. It is deeply strange as it is an argument over the very general…
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Tax avoidance – How cynical to deny the legitimacy of moral judgement
You don’t have to be a professor of moral philosophy to know that there’s something wrong with Starbucks arranging their affairs so that they pay zero tax in the UK. It’s very difficult to argue to the contrary. But David Giamaulo and Geoffrey Wood, writing in the Guardian on Saturday, have a novel strategy for…
Conscience and Consciousness 