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Has philosophy lost its stories? | Galen Strawson, Patricia Churchland, Hilary Lawson

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Return to Metaphysics?

I want to focus first on consciousness, because that seems to be a place where we can get a bit of a foothold here. I think there are a kind of two approaches to the question of the nature and mechanism supporting consciousness. One is to develop a great grand exotic theory. The other is to take what we think we know about certain aspects of the penomeno and try to make progress on a specific question. And many of the papers published now in nero science on consciousness do precisely that.

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