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This is the fourth in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Intuition in Philosophy Let’s call the followin...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/05/14/forming-impressions-expertise-in-perception-and-intuition-4.aspx

This is the third in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Presentational Conservatism Part 2 of Forming Impr...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/05/13/forming-impressions-expertise-in-perception-and-intuition-3.aspx

This is the second in a series of posts about my recently published book, Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition (OUP, 2020). Birds and Physics Problems In Chapters 2 and 3 of...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/05/12/forming-impressions-expertise-in-perception-and-intuition-2.aspx

Introduction Radiologists can reliably tell whether a seen x-ray image is abnormal without scanning its details. This is an example of expert perception. Chess masters immediately think of superi...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2021/05/11/forming-impressions-expertise-in-perception-and-intuition-1.aspx

I will conclude this series of posts by saying something about why I think cognitive phenomenology is significant. The basic idea is that phenomenology in general is connected to epistemology, va...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/10/cognitive-phenomenology-why-bother.aspx

According to Mill “pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.” This does not imply that the good life is a degrading one, fit for swine, however, at least partly ...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/09/cognitive-phenomenology-questions-of-value.aspx

According to William James experiences, including conscious thoughts, flow in a stream of consciousness. Peter Geach argued that whatever we say about other experiences, conscious thoughts at lea...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/08/cognitive-phenomenology-the-stream-of-consciousness.aspx

In my first post I isolated Irreducibility as the main thesis in dispute about cognitive phenomenology: Irreducibility: Some cognitive states put one in phenomenal states for which no wholly sens...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/07/cognitive-phenomenology-the-role-of-introspection.aspx

First off, thanks to John Schwenkler for inviting me to write a few posts about my new book, Cognitive Phenomenology, and also for inviting other authors to write about their new books. I’ve re...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/05/cognitive-phenomenology-what-is-the-issue.aspx