- Lived:
- Born 1952, Oxford, England · teaches today in Austin, Texas
- Tradition:
- Contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and metaphysics — the realist conscience of consciousness studies
- The Big Idea:
- Nobody can be ultimately morally responsible for anything, experience is the one thing we know for certain exists — and if you take physics seriously, consciousness may go all the way down.
- In their words:
- "Luck swallows everything."
- If you remember one thing:
- The son of the century's great defender of moral responsibility built the century's cleanest argument that ultimate responsibility is impossible — and then argued that consciousness isn't a late arrival in the universe but part of its basic fabric.