Podcast appearances and mentions of michael tye

Religion, the vagueness of consciousness and seeing things when you're blind.Ian has been reading. Dangerous, but sometimes it can't be helped. So we have a chat. First about religion and belief and then about consciousness and awareness.First up - Tanya Luhrmann's take on religion in her book How God Becomes Real. I met her when I chaired last year's Holberg debate. Her take is that to simply say, 'people who believe in a god are mistaken or stupid' does nothing to help undertand why people believe, nor why many of them say it helps them to believe . She wants to understand religious belief not dismiss it. I'm not a believer but I found her work to be insightful and fascinating. Her point is that "...the puzzle or religion is not the problem of false belief, but the question of how gods and spirits become and remain real to people and what this real-making does for humans."Next we look briefly at 'Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness' by Michael Tye. It's slim little book but don't let that fool you. It might look like a puddle but in fact it's a well. One of those rare science/philsophy books where an academic deep-thinker says, 'I have been wrong all these years and here's why.' Basically he began as a staunch supporter of the view that consciousness comes from witing togeher ordinary non-conscious stuff in a clever way. He now thinks this is unworkable and shows why. Leaving him to join the growing number of pan(proto)psychist people who think consciousness has to be a fundamental property of matter.And this leads us to a discussion about how there can be a difference between what your mind/brain can 'know' and what you become 'consiously' aware of. It's a fact that your mind registers, and sometimes even 'knows', a whole lot more than you do. We are all in some respects the Ronald Reagans of our own brain - just the fellow who gets handed the memos and reads them out for the public. He takes the credit but does none of the work. I jest but blind sight experiements among many others show how the brain/mind contains far more than we are consiouesly aware of. Which raises questions about the self and its role. COMMENT AT:https://substack.com/profile/126815820-david-malonehttps://www.instagram.com/hyperlandpodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/130898253302317Music by HYPERLANDGraphics by Caroline LargeImage NASA ID: PIA12348 Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I host Lizzie Bestow, a Philosophy postgraduate student at the University of Durham, in the UK. We define what speciesism is, expanding on the work of Michael Tye, Peter Singer, Iris Murdoch, and others, and examine whether non-human animals can be granted personhood and, if yes, on what grounds. We assess the importance of pain and suffering in animals and comment on the importance of the viewpoint theory in animal ethics. Twitter: twitter.com/PremisePodcast Facebook: facebook.com/PremisePodcast Soundcloud: @PremisePodcast The podcast is also available on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, CastBox, Stitcher, and Spotify. Email: premisepodcast@gmail.com Please consider supporting Premise Podcast on Patreon to help bring philosophy to the public and also enjoy all the benefits of becoming a patron for Premise Podcast. Patreon: www.patreon.com/premisepodcast

In this episode, Jake speaks with author Michael Tye about the "on off switch" of consciousness, the validity of epiphenomenalism and much more.

In this episode, Jake speaks with author Michael Tye about the "on off switch" of consciousness, the validity of epiphenomenalism and much more.

In this episode we interview Michael Tye, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, on the nature of consciousness.

Hawks supporter Michael Tye joins the AAAS as we discuss all the Round 12 games. How about those Blues and Dees!! Download audio file (AAAS-Round-12.mp3)

Consciousness of pain may seem straightforward, but as Michael Tye shows, in conversation with Nigel Warburton, a number of philosophical questions arise from the experience of pain. The Philosophy Bites podcast series is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.