Who
is Justin Sytsma?
I am a graduate student in the department of History
and Philosophy of Science at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Current Research Projects
In addition to my dissertation
research on the new science of consciousness,
I have three major ongoing projects. These projects are related
in that each tackles an outstanding problem concerning the
working of the mind in an empirically informed way. The first
investigates the nature of perception and the existence of
phenomenal qualities, putting forth an intuitive eliminativism
concerning qualia. The second develops an account of the primary
factors involved in the causal attributions made by ordinary
people, relating this to philosophical theories of actual
causation. The third articulates the significant contours
of what Dan Dennett has termed “the folk theory of consciousness,”
drawing a number of conclusions relevant to debates in philosophy
of mind.
Selected Recent Publications
A
New Perspective Concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions,
Sytsma & Livengood, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
(forthcoming).
Two
Conceptions of Subjective Experience, Sytsma & Machery,
Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
Dennett's
Theory of the Folk Theory of Consciousness, Journal
of Consciousness Studies (forthcoming).
Phenomenological
Obviousness and the New Science of Consciousness, Philosophy
of Science (2009).
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