At the turn of the 20th century, several philosophical movements emerged with a shared ambition: to develop a theory of knowledge that takes seriously the idea that we can access the world as it is in itself . These movements opposed reducing knowledge to psychological processes, subjective impressions, or pragmatic considerations. Instead, they sought to ground cognition in the very things the...
Abstract The term “cognitive phenomenology” may be understood as referring to the idea that there is something it is like to entertain thoughts. One of the main problems in the debates on cognitive phenomenology is the question of how it should be construed, for instance in terms of being in a particular phenomenal state. In order to give a concise idea of what cognitive phenomenology is, I...
The prospect of machine consciousness cultivates controversy across media, academia, and industry. Assessing whether non-experts perceive technologies as conscious, and exploring the consequences of this perception, are yet unaddressed challenges in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To address them, we surveyed 100 people, exploring their conceptualisations of consciousness and if and how they...