@article {Scott Bakker:2017:1355-8250:31,
title = "On Alien Philosophy",
journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://imp/jcs",
publishercode ="imp",
year = "2017",
volume = "24",
number = "1-2",
publication date ="2017-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "31-52",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1355-8250",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2017/00000024/f0020001/art00002",
author = "Scott Bakker, R.",
abstract = "Given a sufficiently convergent cognitive biology, we might suppose that aliens would likely find themselves perplexed by many of the same kinds of problems that inform our traditional and contemporary philosophical debates. In particular, we can presume that 'humanoid' aliens
would be profoundly stumped by themselves, and that they would possess a philosophical tradition organized around 'hard problems' falling out of their inability to square their scientific self-understanding with their traditional and/or intuitive self-understanding. As speculative
as any such consideration of 'alien philosophy' must be, it provides a striking, and perhaps important, way to recontextualize contemporary human debates regarding cognition and consciousness.",
}