I think you can have a science of the taste of chicken soup, or the taste of Chateau Latour. My point is only that knowing this science alone will not tell you what chicken soup or Chateau Latour tastes like. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and… — Tim Crane Copy Share
The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to… — Tim Crane Copy Share
One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail… — Tim Crane Copy Share
I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine provides… — Tim Crane Copy Share
I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly… — Tim Crane Copy Share
I think you can have a science of the taste of chicken soup, or the taste of Chateau Latour. My point is only that… — Tim Crane Copy Share
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane Copy Share
Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music… — Tim Crane Copy Share
Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't… — Tim Crane Copy Share
A real naturalistic approach, I would claim, should take the reality of mental representation as a natural fact. A lot can be said about… — Tim Crane Copy Share
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work… — Tim Crane Copy Share
We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by… — Tim Crane Copy Share
The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they… — Tim Crane Copy Share
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane Copy Share
Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a… — Tim Crane Copy Share
