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Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore's Slugfester profile includes score averages, opponents faced, topic performance, and linked debate scorecards.

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About Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore is a psychologist and author who studies consciousness and unusual experiences. Her work also explores how ideas spread, including the account of cultural evolution developed in The Meme Machine.

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Published debate record

3 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 85.3/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Jordan Peterson vs Susan Blackmore: Do We Need God to Make Sense of Life? · 2018

Peterson grounds meaning in enacted religious inheritance, while Blackmore offers evolutionary, contemplative, and social counterexamples to claims of religious necessity.

Jordan Peterson: 74 · Susan Blackmore: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

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.

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.