Aesthetic Quote by Tim Crane

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music…

— Tim Crane

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

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

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

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

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