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Robert G. Cowan

2 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2024

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Getting lucid about lucid dreaming

The Philosophical Quarterly November 11, 2024 Robert G. Cowan

Abstract Lucid dreams are a distinctive and intriguing phenomenon where subjects apparently possess, inter alia, conscious knowledge that they are dreaming while they are dreaming. I here develop and defend a new model of lucid dreaming, what I call the ‘Dyadic Model’, according to which lucid dreams involve the tokening of both dreaming and non-dreaming states. The model is developed to...

Safety and dream scepticism in Sosa’s epistemology

Synthese May 23, 2024 J. Adam Carter, Robert G. Cowan 1 citation

Abstract A common objection to Sosa’s epistemology is that it countenances, in an objectionable way, unsafe knowledge . This objection, under closer inspection, turns out to be in far worse shape than Sosa’s critics have realised. Sosa and his defenders have offered two central response types to the idea that allowing unsafe knowledge is problematic: one response type adverts to the...