Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here’s a valid argument: There is always an absolute fact about whether two conscious states are hosted simultaneously. If the mind is ph...

Consider this unity of consciousness thesis: Necessarily, if x at time t has phenomenal state A and phenomenal state B at time t , the...

I am now simultaneously aware of the motion of my fingers and of the text on the screen. Call this co-awareness. Co-awareness is not the sam...

The problem of the unity of consciousness for materialists is what makes activity in different areas of the physical mind come together into...

I was grading undergraduate metaphysics papers last night and came across a very interesting observation in a really smart student’s paper o...

This morning I find myself feeling the force of presentism. I am finding it hard to see my four-dimensional worm theory as adequately explai...

Here’s a familiar kind of argument: A spatial arrangement of ingredients of a mental life would not yield a unity of consciousness. We ha...

There is, I think, an underexplored argument against physicalism on the basis of Special Relativity and the unity of apperception. The unit...

There is nothing absurd about that liver remaining a proper part of me while gaining a conscious mind. (Certainly this is true if m...