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Lots of psychological studies involve measuring people twice. For example, in the imagery literature, there's a minor industry that seeks to relate self-reports about imagery to performance on cognitive tasks that seem to involve visual imagery, such...
I have just submitted my new book manuscript, Perplexities of Consciousness, to MIT Press. The whole thing is now viewable from my homepage.
Comments still welcome -- more than welcome! -- either on this post or by email.
Now that this manuscript is...
... a novel written by my father, Kirk Gable (born Ralph Schwitzgebel), is now available at Amazon. I hear his voice on every page, glimpse some piece of his worldview, which so affected my own.
Here's the blurb:
In this inspiring coming-of-age...
Suspiciously simple, you might think. Here it goes:
(1.) No general theory of consciousness can be justified except on the grounds that it gets it right about certain facts known independently of that theory. Those facts include facts about the...
I hadn't seen this curveball illusion before. Very striking and surprising. I haven't had a chance to look into the theory behind it yet, but it seems to me to suggest something strange about the mapping of visual input into peripheral...
Great blog.
Eric is writing on the topics of philosophy of psychology and also he has interesting stuff on how ethical thought affects behavior.
He introduces the topics in clear way, and there are great discussions developing in the comments.
