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The necessity of conceivability
SynthÈse, 2022 In his conceivability argument, Chalmers assumes that all properties have their causal powers contingently and causal laws are also contingent. We argue this claim conflicts with how conceivability itself must work for the conceivability argument to be successful.
Sophie R Allen, Javier Cumpa
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Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2021 The argument in defense of minimal dualism presented in Bogdan Faul’s article presents the idea that we can conceive consciousness existing only in the introspection without a physical body.
T. S. Demin
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Conceivability and possibility: some dilemmas for Humeans. [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 The Humean view that conceivability entails possibility can be criticized via input from cognitive psychology. A mainstream view here has it that there are two candidate codings for mental representations (one of them being, according to some, reducible ...
Berto F, Schoonen T.
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Public and physicians’ support for euthanasia in people suffering from psychiatric disorders: a cross-sectional survey study [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2019 Background Although euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) in people with psychiatric disorders is relatively rare, the increasing incidence of EAS requests has given rise to public and political debate.
Kirsten Evenblij +4 more
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The Conceivability of Locke's Image of the World
Locke Studies, 2019 This is a revised version of a paper presented at the APA Eastern Division's 115th annual meeting in New York on Monday January 07, 2019. It was presented at session 2O Author Meets Critics: Michael Jacovides, Locke’s Image of the World.
Robert Pasnau
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Holographic Duality and the Physics of Consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 This paper introduces a novel dual-aspect theory of consciousness that is based on the principle of holographic-duality in modern physics and explores the prospects of making philosophically significant empirical discoveries about the physical correlates
Uziel Awret
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Minimal dualism and epistemic approach [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2021 In this paper the author presents an argument in favor of minimal dualism — thesis, according to which conscious agents are able to exist without bodies. Author demonstrates the advantages of this argument.
B. V. Faul
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Problemos, 2023 In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”).
Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
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Robert Kirk’s Attempted Intellectual Filicide: Are Phenomenal Zombies Hurt? [PDF]
Organon F, 2022 In the paper, I discuss Robert Kirk’s attempt to refute the zombie argument against materialism by demonstrating, “in a way that is intuitively appealing as well as cogent”, that the idea of phenomenal zombies involves incoherence.
Dmytro Sepetyi
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 This paper develops and defends a new argument against physicalist views of consciousness: the inconceivability argument. The argument has two main premises.
Brian Cutter
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