Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.