Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were not enough - but stupid or idiotic too. We tend to find this attitude too in the contemporary… — 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 it seems to me of great importance that these questions are not just left to scientists, but that there are thinkers who make it their business to think as clearly and slowly about these questions as… — 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 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
