Explore every episode of the podcast Consciousness Live!

Join me for the thrilling conclusion of season 8 of Consciousness Live! with Kenneth Williford, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, as we discuss the nature of self-consciousness, the role of representation and modeling in theorizing about consciousness, and the Projective Consciousness Model that he has developed, plus a whole bunch of other … Continue reading Kenneth Williford Live!

Join me for a discussion with Sam Coleman, lecturer at Birkbeck College University of London, as we discuss pan-qualityism, representation, consciousness, and a whole lot more!

Join me for a discussion with Katalin Balog, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark, as we discuss the metaphysics of consciousness and mind with a focus on Kati’s Dialectical Monism or the view that dualism and physicalism are somehow both correct, illusionism and the value of consciousness, and much more! Kati’s website: https://hypatiaonhudson.net

Join me for a discussions with Barbara Gail Montero, Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, as we discuss themes from book in-progress on physicalism in the real world. Barbara’s website: https://barbaramontero.wordpress.com

Join me for further discussion Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we continue to discuss themes from her book The Unity of Perception

Join me for a discussion with Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we discuss themes from her book The Unity of Perception

Join me for a discussion with Biyu He, a cognitive neuroscientist at New York University, as we discuss large-scale brain dynamics and consciousness, plus a whole lot of other stuff as well!

Join me for a discussion with Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as we discuss all things logic.

Join me for a discussion with Brian Cutter, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, as we discuss his argument from psychophysical harmony for the existence of God, and many other things!

Join me for the kickoff of Season 8 of the podcast and a discussion with Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor (ZAPBOF), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp and Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, as we discuss themes fro his recent book Mental Imagery.

Join me for a discussion with Maja Spener, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, for the season 7 finale as we do a deep dive into the reliability of introspection for the mind sciences.

Join me for a discussion with Andrei Buckareff, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist University, as we discuss skateboarding, pantheism, and more! This episode was recorded live as part of LaGuardia Community College’s Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. The intro starts at 3 minutes in (sorry, it is live after all!) Andei’s website: … Continue reading Andrei Buckareff Live!

Join me for a discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, as we discuss the cognitive science and philosophical psychology of perception and cognition Jake’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/jakequiltydunn/home

Join me for a discussion with Arnold Zuboff as we discuss his views on the nature of the self -universalism or the idea that there is just one subject of experience: everyone. Arnold’s book

Join me for a discussion with Farid Masrour, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, as we take a deep dive into the philosophy of perception and naive realism

Join me for a discussion with J. Kevin O’Regan, ex-director of the “Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception” at the Université René Descartes, Paris, as we discuss his sensorimotor theory of consciousness.

Join me for a discussion with Peter Langland-Hassan, professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss themes from his book Explaining Imagination

Join me for a discussion with Josh Weisberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, as we discuss themes from his new book ‘Explanatory Optimism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness’

Join me for a discussion with Matthias Michel as we discuss the Perceptual Reality Monitoring theory of consciousness

Join me for a discussion with Jamie Woodhouse as we discuss all things Sentientist.

Gualtiero Piccinini joins me for a discussion of the nature and physical implementation of computation and consciousness

Steve Fleming joins me to discuss his new(-ish) book Know Thyself: The science of Self Awareness, the recent ‘IIT letter’, and a whole lot more! Steve’s blog post on IIT: https://elusiveself.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/iit-vs-gnwt-and-the-meaning-of-evidence-in-consciousness-science/

My struggle with technical issues continues! But after we work that out Eric and I have a really fun discussion about his new book The Weirdness of the World.

Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.

Join me for a discussion with neuroscientist Rachel Denison and to see me comically flustered. For the first thirty-minutes or so of our discussion I thought we were live-streaming when we weren’t! That hasn’t happened to me since the old days of Spacetime Mind. I must be rusty!

2024 is here and I am slowly coming out of my book-writing-induced coma to return to normal daylight activities. I have submitted the manuscript and we’ll see what reviewers think. In the meantime, I am slowly getting a line up for some Consciousness Live! discussions in the New Year. I started off the New Year … Continue reading Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)

Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark’s book: The Hidden Spring Mark’s wikipedia page

Join me for a discussion with Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michal Pitts as we discuss COGITATE -an innovative Open Science, preregistered adversarial collaboration focused on arbitrating between two leading theories of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW) COGITATE project website

Join me for a discussion with Claire Sergent, a Professor at the Université de Paris, in the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, as we discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the Global Workspace Theory

Join me for a discussion with Cevin Soling, a filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist, as we discuss his defense of solipsism -the metaphysical view that there is only one mind and that mind is Cevin Soling Cevin’s website

Join me for a discussion with Megan Peters, an Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, as we discuss her work on consciousness and metacognition Megan’s website Fund Consciousness Neuromatch Academy M-STEP paper

Join me for a discussion with Adrien Doerig, currently a Postdoc with Tim Kietzmann at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behavior, as we discuss empirical criteria for theories of consciousness

Join me for a discussion with Evan Thompson, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group), as we discuss Biopsychism -the view that mind and consciousness are co-extensive with life. Evan’s website

Join me for a discussion with Hedda Mørch, a philosopher and associate professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, as we discuss her work on causation and panpsychism. Hedda’s website

Join me for a discussion with Peter Carruthers, a philosopher at the University of Maryland, as we discuss themes from his new book Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Question Laid to Rest Peter’s website

Join me for a discussion with Tony Chemero, a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss Radical Embodied cognitive Science find out more about Tony’s work

Join me for a discussion with Kate Pendoley, a philosopher currently at Hunter College, CUNY, as we discuss her work on the emotions. Kate’s website

Join me for a discussion with Nick Shea, a Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, as we discuss his book Representation in Cognitive science Nick’s Website Representation in Cognitive Science (open access book!)

Join me for a discussion with Jake Berger, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lycoming College, as we discuss the nature of perceptual experience Jake’s website

Join me for a discussion with Declan Smithies, a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University, as we discuss themes from his book The Epistemic Significance of Consciousness Declan’s website The Epistemic Significance of Consciousness

Join me for a discussion with Bernard J. Baars as we discuss consciousness science, global workspace theory, and more!

Join me for a discussion with Christof Koch, Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, as we discuss themes from his recent book The Feeling of Life Itself Christof’s website

Join me for a discussion with Luke Roelofs, a Postdoc at the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, as we discuss themes from his book Combining Minds Luke’s website Combining Minds

Join me for a discussion with Elizabeth Loftus, a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Criminology, Law and Society, Cognitive Science, and  Law at UC Irvine, as we discuss her work on memory. Elizabeth’s website

Join me for a conversation with François Kammerer, a Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany, as we discuss illusionism about phenomenal consciousness Francois’ website: https://www.francoiskammerer.com

Join me for a discussion with Daniel Stoljar, a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, as we discuss physicalism, the epistemic approach to consciousness, conceivability arguments, revelation for introspection, illusionism, and more! Daniel’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/danielstoljar/

Join me for a discussion with Victor Caston, a professor of philosophy and classical studies at the University of Michigan, as we discuss Aristotle on consciousness, perception, representationalism, the Veil of Perception, and more! Victor’s Academia.edu website

Join me for a discussion with Chris Letheby, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and (2019-2022) Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide on the ARC-funded project ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry’, as we discuss the philosophy of psychedelics Chris’ website: http://www.chrisletheby.com/index.html Chris’book: Philosophy of Psychedelics

Join me for a discussion with Heather Berlin, a neuroscientist, licensed clinical psychologist, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as we discuss A.I., cognitive enhancement, the unconscious, psychiatry, and more Heather’s website: https://heatherberlin.com