Susan Haack Quotes on Mind
Susan Haack’s Evidence and Inquiry (1993), Defending Science — Within Reason (2003), and the long sequence of papers on epistemology and the philosophy of logic give contemporary analytic philosophy one of its most distinctive defenses of pragmatist foundherentism in the analysis of knowledge and mind. The central project of Evidence and Inquiry is the development of a position intermediate between foundationalism and coherentism in which the structure of empirical justification is modeled on the interlocking constraints of a crossword puzzle — with the related work in the philosophy of mind defending a robustly realist treatment of belief and intentional content against the eliminative materialist alternatives. The framework, drawing on Peirce’s classical American pragmatism and the broader analytic tradition Haack inherited from her Cambridge training, shaped the contemporary engagement with the philosophical foundations of empirical knowledge and the broader defense of substantive epistemological inquiry.
Quotes
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“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”
- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing -
“Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.”
Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes , Wired.com, 2/29/2008 -
“Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.”
Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 74 -
“The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi , because I didn’t have an open mind!”
The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of -
“The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of”
The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi , because I didn’t have an open mind!