Convincing you to buy my book, day 1/31:
How to sneak onto a train? There are options. You can try when it's stopped, but there will be security. More reliable is to catch it "on the fly." You wait for the train somewhere you know it will being going slow -- a hill, a crossing.
Then, you run.
@josephfgough.bsky.social made a very cool, accessible video on the concept of the mind and why it’s less valuable today than it once was. A great teaching tool!! youtu.be/tPXbnketu8I
I wrote belatedly about the BAFTAs, Ye, and how 'santizing' psychiatric conditions in the name of destigmatization adds to stigma open.substack.com/pub/joefgoug...
Arguments that the universe is fine tuned for life and cognition neglect contemporary theories of life and cognition - and so, they fail! My grumpy piece about why fine tuning arguments need to care about what 'life' is, now open access in Nous onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Travis LaCroix's new article arguing that ‘theory of mind’ research in autism qualifies as pseudoscientific www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
my commentary here, arguing that ‘pseudoscience’ might be a bit of a red herring www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I made a video for New Work in Philosophy on mind and self, from Descartes to the anti-Cartesians. Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for the invite! youtu.be/tPXbnketu8I
Next, Joseph Gough addresses the relationship between phenomenal #consciousness and moral status in this open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
I started a substack, intending to use it to talk about my plan to train as a therapist. This week, however, I wrote about a close family friend's funeral, and last week I wrote about discovering that my Jewish ancestry has made me German... joefgough.substack.com
I started a substack, intending to use it to talk about my plan to train as a therapist. This week, however, I wrote about a close family friend's funeral, and last week I wrote about discovering that my Jewish ancestry has made me German... joefgough.substack.com
I have a new article! Doing a sort of mini-genealogy of the concept of mind in response to Toon's mental fictionalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine-tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine-tuning arguments gener...
The theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism proposes that autistics lack a theory of mind, that autism comprises a theory-of-mind deficit (strong version); or, that autistics often have diffic...
Intuitively, there is a close link between moral status and phenomenal consciousness. Taking the link seriously can serve as the basis of a proposal that appears to have a surprising number of theo...
My personal Substack. Click to read Joe's Substack, by Joe Gough, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
joefgough.substack.com
Toon (2023) argues that “the mind is a useful fiction.” The mind, for Toon, is essentially an “inner world” or “inner grotto,” which is “private” and which “houses our mental states – our beliefs, ...
