Interview with Ned Block

Feb 6, 2007 02:00 PM

Interview with Ned Block, following his guest lectures at CSMN in 2006 (Filosofisk Supplement)

Is it possible to explain why certain states of the nervous system should be accompanied by phenomenal consciousness? Can mental states be reductively identified with physical states? How, if at all, can neuroscientific results be brought to bear on philosophical controversies about the mind? When it comes to hotly debated questions like these, Ned Block (Prof. of philosophy and psychology, New York University) is one of the world’s leading philosophers. When he visited Oslo in November 2006 to give three lectures, we asked him some primarily metaphilosophical questions about how he pictures philosophy and its relation to empirical sciences.

Published in Filosofisk Supplement, 06.02.2007

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