Brandon James Ashby
Biographic Data
| ID | 4281758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon James Ashby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon James |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashby |
| SIGNATURE | ASHBY B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9897-9733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Is gastronomy a case of sensory engineering? Is sensory engineering relevant to gastronomy?We argue that gastronomy is a familiar and widespread example of sensory engineering. This has two consequences. First, we can use our everyday acquaintance with gastronomy to illuminate the nature of sensory engineering and to interpret emerging and exotic cases, such as augmented reality, psychedelics, and artificial sensory organs. Second, by viewing gas…
Let sleeping dogs lie
Perceptual liberals have offered numerous arguments claiming to show that kind-representing perceptual phenomenology exists, which raises questions about what it is like to perceive objects as belonging to different kinds. Yet almost no effort has been made to answer these questions. This quietism invites the concern that liberalism may be a defunct research program: unable to answer the questions raised by its own development. Building on work b…
What was that like? Intuitions and the epistemology of consciousness
I argue that physicalists have been too conciliatory in granting that certain classic thought experiments about consciousness like Mary the colour scientist, colour spectrum inversion, and zombies provide strong prima facie support for epiphenomenal anti-physicalism. While these thought experiments may suggest that we are intuitive epiphenomenal anti-physicalists when taken individually, when they are appropriately combined, they suggest that epi…
Rainbow's end
Separatism, representationalism, and phenomenal intentionalism are the primary views on the relationship between the phenomenality and intentionality of experience. I defend a novel position that is incompatible with separatism, can enrich representationalism and phenomenal intentionalism, but can also be accepted independently of those views. I call it phenomenal schematics : The phenomenal characters of our experiences have structures that plac…
The Price of Twin Earth
Liberals about perceptual contents claim that perceptual experiences can represent kinds and specific, familiar individuals as such; they also claim that the representation of an individual or kind as such by a perceptual experience will be reflected in the phenomenal character of that experience. Conservatives always deny the latter and sometimes also the former claim. I argue that neither liberals nor conservatives have adequately appreciated h…
The Price of Twin Earth
Liberals about perceptual contents claim that perceptual experiences can represent kinds and specific, familiar individuals as such; they also claim that the representation of an individual or kind as such by a perceptual experience will be reflected in the phenomenal character of that experience. Conservatives always deny the latter and sometimes also the former claim. I argue that neither liberals nor conservatives have adequately appreciated h…
The Price of Twin Earth
Liberals about perceptual contents claim that perceptual experiences can represent kinds and specific, familiar individuals as such; they also claim that the representation of an individual or kind as such by a perceptual experience will be reflected in the phenomenal character of that experience. Conservatives always deny the latter and sometimes also the former claim. I argue that neither liberals nor conservatives have adequately appreciated h…
Rainbow's end
Separatism, representationalism, and phenomenal intentionalism are the primary views on the relationship between the phenomenality and intentionality of experience. I defend a novel position that is incompatible with separatism, can enrich representationalism and phenomenal intentionalism, but can also be accepted independently of those views. I call it phenomenal schematics : The phenomenal characters of our experiences have structures that plac…
What was that like? Intuitions and the epistemology of consciousness
I argue that physicalists have been too conciliatory in granting that certain classic thought experiments about consciousness like Mary the colour scientist, colour spectrum inversion, and zombies provide strong prima facie support for epiphenomenal anti-physicalism. While these thought experiments may suggest that we are intuitive epiphenomenal anti-physicalists when taken individually, when they are appropriately combined, they suggest that epi…
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering
Is gastronomy a case of sensory engineering? Is sensory engineering relevant to gastronomy?We argue that gastronomy is a familiar and widespread example of sensory engineering. This has two consequences. First, we can use our everyday acquaintance with gastronomy to illuminate the nature of sensory engineering and to interpret emerging and exotic cases, such as augmented reality, psychedelics, and artificial sensory organs. Second, by viewing gas…
Let sleeping dogs lie
Perceptual liberals have offered numerous arguments claiming to show that kind-representing perceptual phenomenology exists, which raises questions about what it is like to perceive objects as belonging to different kinds. Yet almost no effort has been made to answer these questions. This quietism invites the concern that liberalism may be a defunct research program: unable to answer the questions raised by its own development. Building on work b…
Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Affordance (1 work)