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The Modal Argument and a Rejoinder to Contingent Physicalism
TheoLogica, 2023 Since the time of Descartes, various versions of a modal argument have been proffered for substance dualism. Until recently, the premise most frequently attacked is one that moves from conceivability to metaphysical possibility.
James Moreland
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Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive [PDF]
Sociology of Health & Illness, 2007 AbstractThis article explores the importance of time for an understanding of women's experiences of reproductive identity. In order to do this we draw on data from two separate qualitative research projects. The first project is concerned with the experiences of conception, pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood in primagravidae, whilst the second ...
Earle, Sarah, Letherby, Gayle
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Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2020 The objective of this paper is to defend the non-reductive thesis of phenomenal consciousness. This paper will give an overview of the arguments for the non-reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness and justify why the reductionist approach is ...
Dr. MANAS KUMAR SAHU
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A posteriori physicalism and phenomenal concepts: The a priori synthesizable objection
Filosofia Unisinos, 2017 The aim of this paper is to critically assess and respond to two objections advanced by Daniel Stoljar (2005) against the so-called phenomenal concept strategy.
Julia Telles de Menezes
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2013 Although phenomenal consciousness resists explanation in physical terms, it remains an open question whether or not consciousness is an intrinsically physical phenomenon since it remains an open question whether or not conscious states are identical with
Karol Polcyn
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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.
Michael Jacovides
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Metaphysical Rationalism [PDF]
, 2019 Material from this paper appears in Chap. 7 of my book Reason and Being, but there is also stuff here that isn't in the book. In particular, it discusses the claims that, for Spinoza, conceiving implies explaining and that existence is identical to or ...
Lin, Martin
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Why Phenomenal Zombies Are Conceivable Whereas Anti-Zombies Are not
Актуальні проблеми духовності, 2019 In this article, I discuss Keith Frankish’s attempt to neutralize the zombie argument against materialism with a closely parallel argument for physicalism, the anti-zombie argument, and develop David Chalmers’ reply to this species of arguments.
Dmytro Sepetyi
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The obscurity of the physical: an objection to Chalmers’ conceivability argument
Filosofia Unisinos, 2020 A zombie world is a possible world in which all the microphysical truths are identical to the truths in our world, but no one is phenomenally conscious.
Felipe G. A. Moreira
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, 2006 The possibility of gunk has been used to argue against mereological nihilism. This paper explores two responses on the part of the microphysical mereological nihilist: (1) the contingency defence, which maintains that nihilism is true of the actual world;
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