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    The Roots of Racial Categorization

    I examine the origins of ordinary racial thinking. In doing so, I argue against the thesis that it is the byproduct of a unique module (e.g. a folk-biology module). Instead, I defend a pluralistic thesis accor...

    Ben Phillips in Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2022)

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    Inscrutability and visual objects

    The thesis that the visual system represents objects has garnered empirical support from a variety of sources in recent decades. But what kinds of things qualify as “objects” in the relevant sense? Are they or...

    Ben Phillips in Synthese (2017)

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    Contextualism about object-seeing

    When is seeing part of an object enough to qualify as seeing the object itself? For instance, is seeing a cat’s tail enough to qualify as seeing the cat itself? I argue that whether a subject qualifies as seei...

    Ben Phillips in Philosophical Studies (2016)

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    Indirect representation and the self-representational theory of consciousness

    According to Uriah Kriegel’s self-representational theory of consciousness, mental state M is conscious just in case it is a complex with suitably integrated proper parts, M 1 and M ...

    Ben Phillips in Philosophical Studies (2014)