I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a… — Tim Crane Atheist Copy Share Image
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane Abandoned 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… — Tim Crane Aesthetic 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… — Tim Crane Chicken soup Copy Share Image
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane Artifact 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 Fitness 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… — Tim Crane Followers 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?… — Tim Crane Great scientist 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… — Tim Crane Attention Copy Share Image
If I was going to sum up my approach to this whole mind issue, I would say this: the question is often… — Tim Crane Mind 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… — Tim Crane Abstract 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… — Tim Crane Kind 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,… — Tim Crane Conscious 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,… — Tim Crane Conscious 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… — Tim Crane Conscious Copy Share Image
Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the… — Tim Crane Better place 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… — Tim Crane Atheist Copy Share Image
Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness! — Tim Crane Believe Copy Share Image
Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content — Tim Crane Art Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear. — Tim Crane Clear Copy Share Image
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians. — Tim Crane Christian Copy Share Image
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). — Tim Crane Aspect Copy Share Image
I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge… — Tim Crane Different Copy Share Image
I think we atheists should tolerate the religious not because their views are just as valid as ours, but because experience has… — Tim Crane Atheist Copy Share Image
I do not claim to have any developed or sophisticated views in political philosophy, but I think that one of the lessons… — Tim Crane Fanaticism Copy Share Image
A lot of humanists treat religion as if it were simply a kind of rival cosmological hypothesis, and that this is all… — Tim Crane Cosmology Copy Share Image
Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were… — Tim Crane Attitude Copy Share Image
There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not… — Tim Crane Different Copy Share Image
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The… — Tim Crane Abstract Copy Share Image
I do think it's important to distinguish between intentionalism about consciousness and externalism about consciousness. Intentionalism says that consciousness is a form… — Tim Crane Consciousness Copy Share Image
Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of… — Tim Crane Ambition Copy Share Image
Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and… — Tim Crane Giving Copy Share Image
