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Peter Carruthers
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 6 facts
claimPeter Carruthers proposed an integrative theory of self-knowledge in his 2011 book 'The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge'.
claimPeter Carruthers defended the 'Theory Theory' of self-knowledge in his 1996 paper 'Simulation and Self-Knowledge: A Defence of Theory Theory'.
claimPeter Carruthers proposed a naturalistic theory of phenomenal consciousness in his 2000 book 'Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory'.
referencePeter Carruthers, Logan Fletcher, and J. Brendan Ritchie discussed the evolution of self-knowledge in their 2012 paper 'The Evolution of Self-Knowledge'.
claimPeter Carruthers expressed skepticism regarding the existence of metacognition in animals in his 2008 paper 'Metacognition in Animals: A Skeptical Look'.
referencePeter Carruthers compiled essays on consciousness from a higher-order perspective in his 2005 book 'Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective'.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 3 facts
claimPeter Carruthers (2000) suggests that the relationship between qualitative and phenomenal consciousness and unified, densely integrated representations might be intimate and constitutive, rather than contingent.
claimThe validity of the absent or inverted qualia argument against functionalism is a subject of controversy among philosophers, with contributions from Sydney Shoemaker (1981), Daniel Dennett (1990), and Peter Carruthers (2000).
referencePeter Carruthers (2000) asserts that nonconscious states can exhibit intentionality, necessitating an understanding of how the representational aspects of conscious states resemble and differ from those of nonconscious states.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimIn 2005, philosopher Peter Carruthers proposed that 'recognitional concepts of experience'—defined as the capacity to recognize a type of experience when it occurs in one's own mental life—could explain phenomenal consciousness without positing qualia.
referencePeter Carruthers authored 'Phenomenal concepts and higher-order experiments' in the book 'Consciousness: essays from a higher-order perspective', published by Oxford University Press in 2005.
referencePeter Carruthers authored 'Higher-order theories of consciousness' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Global workspace theory: consciousness as brain wide information ... selfawarepatterns.com Dec 29, 2019 2 facts
claimPeter Carruthers, having transitioned from a higher-order theory to Global Workspace Theory, maintains that there is no definitive fact of the matter regarding animal consciousness.
claimPeter Carruthers attempts to philosophically explain how Global Workspace Theory accounts for phenomenal experience in his latest book, though his position as a 'qualia irrealist' may limit the persuasiveness of his argument for some readers.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimThe hypothesis that the mind is massively modular is a subject of debate, with scholars such as Peter Carruthers, Jesse Prinz, and John Samuels arguing over whether the mind is a collection of hundreds or thousands of modules or if it is modular in a weaker sense.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceHigher-order representationalism is a strongly reductive approach to consciousness supported by theorists including D.M. Armstrong (1968, 1981), David Rosenthal (1986, 2005), William Lycan (1987, 1996, 2001), and Peter Carruthers (2000, 2005).