The PhilPapers Survey

Today, we are joined by David Bourget. David is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario. David is also the co-director of the PhilPapers Foundation and Director of the Center for Digital Philosophy.

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David Bourget: I have two main research interests: consciousness and computing in philosophy. The main aim of my work on consciousness is to characterize its general features (for example, is it a kind of propositional representation?) with a view to facilitating a scientific explanation. My computing-related work mainly focuses on PhilPapers.org and related services that I maintain and develop at the Centre for Digital Philosophy. These days I am particularly interested in developing new types of services and investigating new forms of computing-centric inquiries that can help us better understand philosophical debates. I am happy to supervise graduate students working on consciousness or digital philosophy. The Centre for Digital Philosophy has independent funding to help students in the latter area.