This my philosophy blog — a place for short, informal philosophical essays, mainly on consciousness, illusionism, and other topics in philosophy of mind, aimed mainly at philosophically informed readers. Feel free to cite them, but note that they represent thinking in progress rather than settled positions. From 2026, material posted here is also published on my Substack of the same name: ‘How the magic works’.
Click on any title to read the full piece, together with comments from readers.
Translating ‘what it is like’
7 December 2023
A dialogue with Ordinary Person Keith
23 April 2023
What do we have access to?
28 December 2022
Animal sentience and animal welfare
21 December 2022
How I feel about work on animal sentience
20 December 2022
A dilemma for illusionists — and another for realists!
2 December 2022
Technology and the human minds
28 November 2022
The brain repair experiment
19 November 2022
A dialogue between Philobios and Philopraxis
16 November 2022
Some thoughts on LLMs
2 November 2022
