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William Seager
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Latest papers
The Philosophical and Scientific Metaphysics of David Bohm.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018 · first author
Paradox lost: illusion regained.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2005 · first author
Latest funding
- $30,950
Emergence and consciousness
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
- $21,800
Philosophical foundations of cognitive science
SSHRC · 1998 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
The Philosophical and Scientific Metaphysics of David Bohm.
Seager W
Paradox lost: illusion regained.
Seager W
Emergence and consciousness
Principal investigators: Seager, William
Keywords: consciousness; physicalism; emergence; panpsychism; epiphenomenalism; scientific realism; mental causation
Philosophical foundations of cognitive science
Principal investigators: Seager, William
Keywords: mind; consciousness; cognitive science; philosophy of science
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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