In celebration of the 100th episode of Consciousness Live! I am hosting a series of author-meets-reader sessions on my recent book Consciousness as Representing One’s Mind (OUP 2025). All sessions will be live on YouTube! That means I’ll be live-streaming nine straight hours of philosophy! The schedule below is a first-pass rough draft and is subject to change. Should be a lot of fun so stay tuned for further announcements.
May 14 2026
Session 1: 8-11 am (all times in Eastern Time)
- Alex Keifer –Lecturer at Monash University, Department of Philosophy
- Matthias Michel –Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
- David Papinaeu -Professor at King’s College London, Department of Philosophy
- Richard Brown
Session 2: Noon-3 pm
- Jacob Berger –Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Lycoming College
- Claudia Passos-Ferrierra –Assistant Professor of Bioethics at New York University
- Richard Brown
Session 3: 4-6 pm
- Eric Schwitzgebel –Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside
- Richard Brown
Richard Brown 
Hi Richard – very happy to play a part in this despite my amateur status if you think I’d be interesting enough 🙂 I’ve just drafted a “What is Sentience?” chapter for my book about the Sentientism worldview that tries to cover the space. Main themes of interest might include how naturalistic epistemology relates to phil/sci of mind (e.g. how much should we rely on revelation / introspection), pluralism re: phil/sci of mind, common ground between different phil/scis of mind (semantics?), the moral relevance of sentience and what that means for setting our moral scope (e.g. interesting how even illusionists and panpsychists can come to agree roughly on the “who is sentient” question) and its implications for nonhuman and human ethics.