Ned Block
Ned Block | |
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20th-century philosophy | |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Notable students | Daniel Stoljar[1] |
Main interests | Philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | Blockhead China brain |
Ned Joel Block (born 1942) is an American
Education and career
Block obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1971 under the direction of Hilary Putnam. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an assistant professor of philosophy (1971–1977), and then served as associate professor of philosophy (1977–1983), professor of philosophy (1983–1996) and as chair of the philosophy section (1989–1995). He has, since 1996, been a professor in the departments of philosophy and psychology at New York University (NYU).
Block received the
Block is Past President of the
He is married to the developmental psychologist Susan Carey. Block is ethnically Jewish.[4]
Philosophical work
Philosophy of artificial intelligence
Block is noted for presenting the
Block has been a judge at the Loebner Prize contest, a contest in the tradition of the Turing Test to determine whether a conversant is a computer or a human.[6]: 14–15
Consciousness
In his more recent work on
Overflow argument
Ned Block has mounted the overflow argument, which argues against the view that phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness are identical. Instead, Ned Block argues that phenomenal consciousness overflows conscious access, meaning that one can consciously experience something that they do not have conscious access to. Empirically, this means that a subject can have some content included in their conscious experience, but lack the cognitive recognition of the content that is necessary to report that the content was in fact experienced.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ "The John Locke Lectures - Faculty of Philosophy". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
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- ^ Ritchie, S. L., Divine Action and the Human Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), p. 174.
- ^ van de Gevel, Ad J. W., & Noussair, C. N., The Nexus between Artificial Intelligence and Economics (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2013), pp. 14–15.
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