Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and is the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (2011) and A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (2019). He has published dozens of articles on the issue of introspection (esp. our poor knowledge of our own stream of conscious experiences), moral psychology (esp. the relationship between philosophical moral reflection and real-world moral behavior, including the moral behavior of professional ethicists), the nature of belief and other attitudes; the epistemology of philosophy; ancient Chinese philosophy; philosophical issues in moral, developmental, and perceptual psychology; the metaphysics of consciousness; and the relationship between philosophy and science fiction.
✅EPISODE LINKS:
👉Eric's Website: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/
👉Eric's Blog: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/
👉Eric's Books: https://tinyurl.com/3kzd2zaj
👉Eric's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/c8eytsun
✅TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:40 - Mind-Body Problem
9:00 - Scope of ensoulment quadrilemma & the universal bizarreness thesis
17:00 - Issues with illusionist/eliminative/neuroscientific theories of consciousness
29:00 - What is consciousness and the self?
36:25 - Issues of introspection and beliefs
52:11 - Human intelligence vs other animals & extraterrestrials
1:00:08 - Philosophy of science fiction [Greg Egan - Diaspora]
1:06:47 - Ethics of ethicists
1:14:22 - Are philosophers more inclined to extreme beliefs?
1:23:32 - Skepticism & universal dubiety thesis
1:30:27 - Artificial intelligence, Turing tests, GPT-3 & robot consciousness
1:35:42 - Alien species
1:41:40 - Belief in God, atheism, agnosticism
1:45:09 - Free will & compatibilism
1:48:40 - Eric's book/author recommendations
1:56:43 - Philosophy of philosophical expertise & skepticism
2:00:29 - Conclusion
Video Title: Eric Schwitzgebel: Can We Explain Consciousness? Metaphysics of Mind & The Weirdness of the World
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