Keith Frankish

@keithfrankish
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Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός.
Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield.
Posts about mind, consciousness, illusionism, cognitive science, Greece.
Mostly harmless.
Banner image is Rubens's The Rainbow Landscape; for explanation, see https://www.keithfrankish.com/2022/05/like-a-rainbow/
Websitehttp://keithfrankish.com
Podcasthttp://youtube.com/c/MindChat
LocationHeraklion, Crete
Keith FrankishApr 8, 2023
Starting at 2pm UK time! My first solo Mind Chat. Can I persuade you that illusionism is not a silly and dangerous view? I'll give a little talk and then take questions. How will I cope without the reassuring presence of Philip Goff
?
https://www.youtube.com/live/xZxcair9oNk
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism

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Keith FrankishMar 16, 2023
John BullMar 16, 2023

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

Keith FrankishFeb 8, 2023
Twilight of the Tweeps
Keith FrankishFeb 8, 2023
I'm in Twitter jail tonight. Apparently I've exceeded my daily tweet limit, even though I haven't posted more than usual. It's never happened to me before #xp
Keith FrankishJan 14, 2023
Just out on Mind Chat Extra! All or Nothing: Philip and Keith present their rival views of consciousness. (Recording of presentations to the Helsinki Mind and Matter group, 13 Jan 2023) https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1jnW0MHlb8
All or Nothing: Philip and Keith present their rival views of consciousness

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Keith FrankishDec 28, 2022
New blog post: What do we have access to? https://www.keithfrankish.com/2022/12/what-do-we-have-access-to/ #xp
What do we have access to?

Indirect realism and idealism are not popular with contemporary academic philosophers (in the 2022 PhilPapers survey, only 6.6% endorsed idealism and only 5.0% sense data theory), and to many &#821…

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Keith FrankishDec 24, 2022
Another knife shop #xp
Keith FrankishDec 24, 2022
Cretan knife shop #xp
Keith FrankishDec 22, 2022
"Rossetti's fascination with exotic animals continued throughout his life, culminating in the purchase of a llama and a toucan, which he dressed in a cowboy hat and trained to ride the llama round the dining-table for his amusement" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti #xp
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Wikipedia

Keith FrankishDec 21, 2022
Another blog post on animal sentience: https://www.keithfrankish.com/2022/12/animal-sentience-and-animal-welfare/
Animal sentience and animal welfare

A postscript to yesterday’s post on animal sentience. Some readers took me to be proposing that we drop the concept of sentience and stop asking which animals are sentient and which aren&#821…

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