Selective and local scientific realism about well-supported mechanisms, entities, and relations, with boundaries and competing interpretations stated.
A falsifiable, substrate-agnostic research programme for consciousness, comparing organizational and thermodynamic hypotheses with rival theories through formal tests, empirical predictions, and explicit revision conditions.
What does truth require when an opponent publicly substitutes a position you did not hold? An evidence-led examination of Segall, representation, ontology, and the burden of argument.
An introduction to Provisional, Boundary- and Scale-Relative Realism, its evidential commitments, rival models, and the limits of claims about ultimate ontology.
A critical self-audit of Thermodynamic Monism: what follows from thermodynamic constraints, what remains metaphysical conjecture, and which claims need revision.
What Erik Svensson, Massimo Pigliucci, and Matthew David Segall reveal about the evidence for physicalism, the residual case for panexperientialism, and what each would have to do to progress.
Matthew David Segall, Karsten Jensen, and Jason Hoskins on science, philosophy, religion, consciousness, and what it takes for our ideas about reality to be wrong.
Assessing Chalmers’s later work, competing accounts of consciousness, and whether claims about phenomenal experience generate discriminating predictions.