Episode 17: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One
In this first part of their discussion of William James' classic essay in radical empiricism, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?", Phil and JF talk about the various ways we use the slippery C-word in contemporary culture. The episode touches on the political charge of the concept of consciousness, the unholy marriage of materialism and idealism ("Kant is the ultimate hipster"), the role of consciousness in the workings of the weird -- basically, anything but the essay in question. That will come in part two.
\n\nHeader image by Miguel Bolacha, Wikimedia Commons
\n\nREFERENCES
\n\nWilliam James, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?"
\nDaniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
\nDaniel Pinchbeck, author and founder of Reality Sandwich
\nPhil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
\nScott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
\nQuentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
\nMatt Cardin - author and editor, creator of The Teeming Brain