Author: Philip Goff

One way to interpret this question is in economic terms: Would Labour’s tax plan have a negative effect on the economy? But as I am a philosopher rather than an economist, I will focus on the moral interpretation of the question: Are Labour planning to take too much from the individuals (all in the top…

Last week I posted a video outlined one way of understanding the problem of consciousness. Now here’s the solution.

Here is a 20 minute lecture, in which I outline a classic challenge to physicalism.

An episode of the Tom Woods Show (a libertarian podcast series) recently discussed a piece I wrote a few years ago for Tax Justice Network on the ethics of taxation. I thought this was a pretty interesting and intelligent discussion and well worth listening to. The setup, however, was a little disingenuous. One gets the…

I recently published an article in Aeon magazine defending what I call ‘the simplicity argument for panpsychism.’ This is a shorter version of the argument I develop in at length in my forthcoming book Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (the book is not very accessible to non-specialists; I’m currently working on a book aimed a general…

Panpsychism and the hard problem It is sometimes said that consciousness is a mystery in the sense that we have no idea what it is. This is clearly not true. What could be better known to us than our own feelings and experiences? The mystery of consciousness is not what consciousness it is but why…

I wrote this: http://theqstn.com/questions/191259/are-the-hosts-in-westworld-conscious

The most important thing about Jeremy Corbyn is what he symbolises to the tens of thousands of people who have joined the Labour party since he became leader. After years of soulless Blairite pragmatism without principles, Corbyn represents a return to conviction and hope for radical change. In the unlikely event that Corbyn were to…

Guest post by Tom McClelland (a fellow consciousness comrade from the University of Manchester).

Last week the long awaited Chilcot report on the Iraq War finally came out. I’m sure everyone’s read enough commentary. All I have to add is this wonderful poem by Graham Danzein.   Did Blair lie? You should expect most politicians’ lies. And it is such a clanging word to use – when fibs and fiddles…