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Today I interview philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel about how well we really know our own conscious experience.
Download CPBD episode 082 with Eric Schwitzgebel. Total time is 1:18:36.
Eric Schwitzgebel links:
- Home page at University of California, Riverside
- Eric’s blog
- Describing Inner Experience: Proponent Meets Skeptic
- Perplexities of Consciousness
- “The Unreliability of Naive Introspection“
- Eric on Philosophy TV with Peter Carruthers and Brie Gertler and Tamar Gendler
Links for things we discussed:
- Michael Tye
- Titchener, Experimental Psychology (part 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Russ Hurlburt
- Religion and crime
- Do atheists commit less vicious sex crimes?
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Finally caught up to current on CPBD episodes! Unfortunately, I never did grasp Eric’s point about how we can be mistaken about our own phenomenal experience. Did anyone else have trouble with this and then the light went on? If so, what did it for you?
Garren(Quote)
Garren,
The most astonishing case for me is the discovery that we do not actually perceive color outside of a narrow range directly in front us, though it always seems to us that we perceive color in all of our visual field. Our knowledge of immediate visual experience is profoundly wrong in many ways, and this should humble us.
Luke Muehlhauser(Quote)