Ralph Stefan Weir

When the Dying Wake: What Terminal Lucidity Reveals A phenomenon that may be beyond neuroscientific explanation.

Recent piece in Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live!

This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...

@jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social makes a great observation

Print - Works in Progress Magazine

Works in Progress is an amazing magazine of new ideas. Defying wider trends in publishing, it is moving from online only to print as well. This will be the most beautiful and intelligent magazine in existence and you should really consider subscribing. worksinprogress.co/print/

Departing Split to end the summer conference season in Rome

University of Lincoln students victorious after win on iconic quiz show It's the first time the university has had a team compete on the popular show

Massive congratulations to our brilliant University Challenge team, including two LSHH team members, for winning in Lincoln's first appearance on the show! Looking forward to round 2!! www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? Yes! When controlling for baseline differences, philosophy students outperform all other disciplines on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind

Artistic Networks of Trust The Calouste Gulbenkian Conference in Art History, in its second edition, offers a reflection on networks of trust in the art world, through the lens of Calouste Gulbenkian’s life and transnational ac...

Upcoming conference in beautiful Lisbon this October on "Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, organised by LSHH's Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/age...

DEBATE: Is mind-body interaction a problem for dualism? Ralph Stefan Weir vs. Ben Watkins Ralph Stefan Weir and Ben Watkins debate whether there is a sound argument from mental causation to materialism. The argument goes roughly as follows: Our minds cause bodily movements. Bodily movement...

I will be debating the interaction problem for mind-body dualism with the great philosophy podcaster Ben Watkins at 6pm this evening UK time (1pm EST), hosted by Emerson Green. Please join us! www.youtube.com/live/-P2k1pG...

Was Heraclitus a Hindu? An evaluation of Thomas McEvilley's "scholarly proof" of the influence of the Upanishads on the great pre-Socratic.

What Heraclitus a Hindu?? You probably thought no, but I'm going to tell you... maybe! afternature.substack.com/p/was-heracl...

One could argue that neuroscience should be methodologically behaviourist, treating such reports as observable behaviours only, and not as testimony about inner mental states. However, that is not, how neuroscience is actually practiced, or how most neuroscientists think

People often suggest that to qualify as *science* a theory must be based on publicly observable evidence. But in fact, neuroscience relies heavily on private experience. Investigators ask people what they can see, how much pain they feel, etc.

LSHH researcher Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan's new book on Armenian architecture, supported by the Barakat Trust, comes out later this year. Read about it here! shorturl.at/729mX

Almost time for the 2025 student edition of the Lincoln Philosophy Salon! Looking forward to public talks on art and morality, personhood, and the quantum measurement problem by three of our brilliant current students

The purpose of a building is how it looks True functionalism combines utility and beauty

Here I am explaining what the deal is with functionalist architecture at Works in Progress substack.com/home/post/p-...

Congratulations to everyone celebrating their graduation in Uphill Lincoln this lovely evening!

YouTube video by Emerson Green Could you have been an alligator? | Philosophy of Personal Identity

Honoured to feature in Emerson Green's latest episode, in which he gives a great intro to the problem of personal identity over time m.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKg...

I'm a hereditary Crystal Palace fan. Today is a good day.

On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social

To infinity and beyond with Caspar David Friedrich | Apollo Magazine The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer, writes Lauren Kane

‘If the subjects are no one, they can be us’ – Lauren Kane on the figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich who have their backs turned to us

Thanks for your comments! I should give Lockwood's argument some time. However, I'd say that a dualist can countenance that the mind may exist in space, if it is nonetheless fundamentally mental, and hence something over and above the fundamentally nonmental stuff of physicalist ontologies

YouTube video by Emerson Green The Myth of the Interaction Problem

There's a new video clip in which I explain why I think there's no problem of mind-body interaction, ahead of a future debate on the topic with the same channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziov...

A new special issue of Theologica on death and the afterlife co-edited by Lincoln philosopher Dr Daniel Came and Dr Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is now available online! ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/th...

From exploring metaphysics and the nature of reality to joining the Guides and Scouts Society, hear Thomas share his experience of studying BA (Hons) Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. 📚

Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/

I am writing a new version of the Stanford article on Dualism. If anyone has thoughts on what needs adding I'd be delighted to hear them

You are just one day off his birthday! 30 March is, however, the birthday of a notable contemporary defender of substance dualism

Have AIs Already Reached Consciousness? The Nobel-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says that current AIs are conscious. Could he be right? And what should we make of a world where experts cannot agree on this question?

New piece just out: Have AIs Already Reached Consciousness? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

You Are A Soul — w/ Ralph Stefan Weir YouTube video by Emerson Green

Had an enjoyable FOUR HOUR discussion on mind and metaphysics with Emerson Green on Walden Pod last week. You can watch it here, or on Spotify/Apple etc. mercifully edited down to just 3.5 hours. www.youtube.com/watch?si=Mn_...