Urban philosophy should move away from language-based and vision-centered models of cognition toward sensorimotor, emotional, and habitual frameworks. The paper argues that marginalizing ocularcentrism and linguistic models improves understanding of urban phenomena and enhances city design and planning. This shift, grounded in cognitive science, emphasizes emotions, habits, and sensorimotor attitudes as key to grasping the urban dimension.
Thought experiments about phenomenal consciousness have a legitimate and valuable role in philosophy. The paper first surveys the philosophical and scientific background of well-known mind-and-consciousness thought experiments, focusing on problems left unresolved by scientific theories and by attempts to reduce mind to the physical world. A case study of the zombie thought experiment shows how a simple, naive intuition generated complex arguments that have enriched philosophical and intellectual landscape. Overall, philosophy addresses properly philosophical questions about the mind and is not a junior partner to cognitive science.