Ep. 13 - David Papineau: Materialism and Consciousness

In this episode, I talk with David Papineau about his rejection of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, how dualism infects thinking about theory of mind, and how materialism is the best account of why we have experiences.

Here's any links you'll need to dive deeper:

https://iai.tv/articles/we-must-shed-our-metaphysical-assumptions-auid-1367

https://www.davidpapineau.co.uk/unpublished-talks.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekMv8-9gNo&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itSSn6jj8iQ&t=2227s

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