There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The passer-by says 'well, I wouldn't start from here'. Rather than starting by talking in the abstract about materialism,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
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 Image
