The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and …

Just as metacognition is cognition about cognition, and a metatheory is a theory about
theories, the meta-problem is a problem about a problem. The initial problem is the hard …

In recent years, developments in experimental philosophy have led many thinkers to
reconsider their central assumptions and methods. It is not enough to speculate and …

Introduction The lack of biomarkers indicating involved nociceptive and/or pain mechanisms
makes diagnostic procedures problematic. Clinical pain research has begun to use …

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the" final, crowning chapter of the
Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness …

Technological advances raise new puzzles and challenges for cognitive science and the
study of how humans think about and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). For example, the …

In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal
case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences …

This goal of this thesis in the philosophy of nature is to move us closer towards a true
biological science of consciousness in which the evolutionary origin, function, and …

The goal of this article is to break down the dimensions of consciousness, attempt to reverse
engineer their evolutionary function, and make sense of the origins of consciousness by …

The meta-problem is' the problem of explaining why we think that there is a problem of
consciousness'(Chalmers, 2018, p. 6). This presupposes that we think there is a problem in …