Monday, July 18, 2022

This 3-page comic, "Mary the Futuristic Super Scientist" written and drawn by Pete Mandik, discusses Frank Jackson's famous Mary thought experiment from his paper "Epiphenomenal Qualia."





 Video discussion of Chapter 2: Substance Dualism. Video by alfsvoid, called "Can Reason Prove We Have a Soul?"



Second Edition Coming in September 2022

 The second edition of This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction by Pete Mandik is expected out in September 2022. The main differences between the two editions is the addition of two chapters. 

The first new chapter is "Chapter 16: The 4E Approach," covering various proposals to study the mind as a phenomenon that exemplifies one or more of the following four "E's": embodiment, enaction, embeddedness, and extension.

The second new chapter is "Chapter 17: Futuristic Directions," covering futuristic mind-relevant topics such as the technological singularity, posthumans, and mind uploading.