...inferences based on IIT’s tenets (see Owen 2019, pp. 181-183; 2021, pp. 180-182). I think the above critique is perfectly reasonable to raise. But it is likewise fair to ask:...
...In the results, ‘Owen’ is misspelled with the commonly added s, which I, as a fan of Jesse Owens, feel is an honor.) By the time we were running in...
Matthew Owen teaches philosophy at Yakima Valley College in Washington State. He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his new book Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition...
It’s January 18, 2021. The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, has just been impeached for a second time in just over one year on...
In 2011, at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna a postdoctoral researcher, Madeline Lancaster, inadvertently brought about the production of a brain organoid from human embryonic stem cells. The...
...research includes both philosophical and empirical work on automaticity, expertise, and the aesthetics of technology. Matthew Watts Matthew Watts is currently a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of...
Matthew Owen (PhD, University of Birmingham) is a faculty member in the philosophy department at Yakima Valley College in Washington State. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the...
Throughout the previous century dualism’s demise seemed imminent. During the 1970s Daniel Dennett (1978, p. 252) assessed the field of philosophy of mind and his evaluation of dualism was unflattering,...
In her 1985 hit song Material Girl, Madonna summed up the prevailing view in philosophy of mind: “We are living in a material world and I am a material girl.”...
