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Bernardo Kastrup

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About Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer engineer whose work focuses on consciousness. He defends analytic idealism, the view that reality is fundamentally mental rather than that consciousness is produced by an independently existing physical world.

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Published debate record

6 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 80.7/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore: What Is Consciousness? · 2023

Kastrup grounds reality in consciousness, while Blackmore argues that neutral representation better exposes idealism's unresolved structure, boundaries, and causal differentiation.

Bernardo Kastrup: 83 · Susan Blackmore: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Is Superdeterminism Scientifically Justified? Sabine Hossenfelder vs. Bernardo Kastrup · 2022

Hossenfelder narrowly prevails by defending model-specific, local, testable research, while Kastrup exposes unresolved mechanisms, evidential motivation, and operational specification.

Sabine Hossenfelder: 85 · Bernardo Kastrup: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Does Analytic Idealism Explain Consciousness Better? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Tom Jump · 2023

Kastrup narrowly wins by pressing materialism’s qualitative explanatory gap, while Jump preserves materialism’s viability through epistemic caution, composition challenges, and realization possibilities.

Bernardo Kastrup: 83 · Tom Jump: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Does Analytic Idealism Better Explain Reality? Bernardo Kastrup vs. Graham Oppy · 2021

Kastrup makes consciousness and qualitative experience the central explanatory test; Oppy narrowly prevails by clarifying pluralistic naturalism, identity, underdetermination, and balanced theory choice.

Bernardo Kastrup: 81 · Graham Oppy: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Iain McGilchrist vs Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness, God, Truth, and Purpose · 2025

Both consciousness-first accounts converged substantially, but Kastrup’s sharper perspectival distinctions and replies narrowly surpassed McGilchrist’s richer yet less-warranted value-directed participatory case.

Iain McGilchrist: 77 · Bernardo Kastrup: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Bernardo Kastrup vs Susan Blackmore — Consciousness and illusion · 2023

Blackmore’s disciplined challenges expose gaps in Kastrup’s elegant idealist account, especially around boundaries and evidence, while her limited method avoids claiming a rival metaphysics.

Bernardo Kastrup: 75 · Susan Blackmore: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

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