Tim Crane Quotes & Sayings

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.). — Tim Crane

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it — Tim Crane

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself. — Tim Crane

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians. — Tim Crane

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane

Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy. — Tim Crane

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness! — Tim Crane

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content — Tim Crane

I do think it's important to distinguish between intentionalism about consciousness and externalism about consciousness. Intentionalism says that consciousness is a form of intentionality - the representation of things to the mind. Externalism says that these things have to exist in order for them to be represented, or presented. These are different views. — Tim Crane

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist. — Tim Crane

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity. — Tim Crane