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Debate

Introducing Consciousness

David Papineau and Ted Honderich recently locked horns at Borders Bookstore in London, in a debate organised by Philosophy For All and Philosophy Now.

Chair David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London and was until recently the editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Ted Honderich was for many years the Grote Professor of Philosophy at University College London; the Professorship formerly occupied by A J Ayer. Both of them have written and published extensively on consciousness and are well-known figures in this debate. David Papineau has just brought out a new book called Introducing Consciousness which is published by Icon Books and about which I’ll say more in a minute. I’m particularly happy to be chairing a debate on consciousness because I myself in fact am often conscious, as of course are many of you.

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