In his paper, Professor Pietro Perconti advocates a social cognition approach to understanding human consciousness, arguing that self-consciousness enhances social cognition. Perconti supports his argument with empirical evidence showing that social cognition capabilities precede the development of self-consciousness in children. However, this paper raises two concerns with his reasoning: the...
In 1939, G. E. Moore presented his famous proof of an external world. In 2018, David Chalmers published his Moorean argument against illusionism. In 2022, Chalmers argued that Moore's original argument was wrong. In this paper, I will try to defend the original Moore's argument against Chalmers-style criticism, and show that Chalmers's Moorean argument against illusionism cannot refute...