Wes Alwan

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5,753 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Sep

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · PEL Presents Closereads: Late Dennett on Consciousness (Part One) · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

In this paper I will highlight a few of the points made and attempted, supporting some and criticizing others, but mainly trying to show how relatively minor decisions about word choice and emphasis can conspire to mislead the theoretician's imagination.

Is there a hard problem?

Chalmers.

And if so, what is that?

And what could possibly count as progress towards solving it?

Although I have staunchly defended and will defend here again the verdict that Chalmers hard problem is a theorist's illusion.

Something inviting therapy.

and not a real problem to be solved with a revolutionary new science, I view my task here to be dispelling confusion first and taking sides second.

Let us see as clearly as we can what the question is and is not before we declare any allegiances.

All right.

The therapeutic thing is where I ironically give it that up a therapist become suspicious and th th that's what I tend to think is in bad faith.

Someone says, Oh, you know, I'm gonna tell you how you're using words wrong and

We're gonna do some therapy here and you're gonna see that the philosophical problem dissolves into thin air.

Yeah, that's what I tend to think is in bad faith.

Maybe maybe I'm gonna

an Oxford language philosophers.

So yeah, I do have a bias against it and and maybe I don't understand and we're gonna

See if I can be converted.

know here is that he he had a it was, but he had a Cockney accent.

So you're gonna have to re reread the whole thing.

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