"There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist, Sitting in One
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Recent "illusionists", such as Keith Frankish and Francois Kammerer, deny that consciousness exists. If that sounds so obviously false that you suspect they must mean something peculiar by "consciousness", you're right! But they say they don't mean anything peculiar by "consciousness" -- that they're just using it in the ordinary sense, or -- rather differently -- at least the sense that most 21st century philosophers mean when they use the word "consciousness".
"There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist, Sitting in One
"There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist…
"There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist, Sitting in One
Recent "illusionists", such as Keith Frankish and Francois Kammerer, deny that consciousness exists. If that sounds so obviously false that you suspect they must mean something peculiar by "consciousness", you're right! But they say they don't mean anything peculiar by "consciousness" -- that they're just using it in the ordinary sense, or -- rather differently -- at least the sense that most 21st century philosophers mean when they use the word "consciousness".