Galen Strawson

The mechanism—the secret—of the given

Synthese · 2021 · 14 citations

'Oh You Materialist!'

Journal of Consciousness Studies · 2021 · 12 citations

[1] Materialism in the philosophy of mind -- materialismPM -- is the view that everything mental is material (or, equivalently, physical). Consciousness -- pain, emotional feeling, sensory experience, and so on -- certainly exists. So materialismPM is the view that consciousness is wholly material. It has, historically, nothing to do with denial of the existence of consciousness. Its heart is precisely the claim that consciousness -- consciousness! -- is wholly material. [2] 'Physicalism', the v…

Descartes and the Buddha—a rapprochement?

Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures · 2023 · 9 citations

Self-Awareness: Acquaintance, Intentionality, Representation, Relation

Review of Philosophy and Psychology · 2022-06-01 · 5 citations

Narrativity and Meaning in Life

Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022-04-20 · 3 citations

Abstract What is the connection between (1) meaning in life and (2) having a ‘narrative’ attitude to life? What, for short, is the connection between (1) Meaning and (2) Narrativity? This chapter takes (1), Meaning, to be, quite simply, interestingness. It takes (2), Narrativity, to be a matter of experiencing or conceiving of one’s life as having the form of a story, or perhaps a collection of stories, and in some manner living in and through this conception. It argues, first, that much of a pe…