Professor, Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne
Tim Bayne is professor of philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, a member of the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, and co-director of the Brain, Mind, and Consciousness programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He is the author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010), Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2018), and Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction (2022).
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Consciousness and altered states
Kind of confusing
Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?
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Cosmology
Just a pale blue dot
When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance?
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Philosophy of mind
The stories of Daniel Dennett
Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought
Tim Bayne