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Deficit of conceivability: response to Bogdan Faul’s article «Minimal dualism and epistemic approach» [PDF]

open access: yesОмский 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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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F, 2020
According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
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Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers

open access: yesEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022
Do conceivability arguments work against physicalism if properties are causal powers? By considering three different ways of understanding causal powers and the modality associated with them, I will argue that most, if not all, physicalist powers ...
Sophie R Allen
exaly   +2 more sources

Correct Conceivability and its Role in the Epistemology of Modality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The starting point of this paper is an argument to the conclusion that the definition of metaphysical possibility in terms of correct conceivability, conceivability informed by knowledge of relevant essences, found in Rosen (2006) is equivalent to a ...
Michels, Robert
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Public and physicians’ support for euthanasia in people suffering from psychiatric disorders: a cross-sectional survey study [PDF]

open access: yesBMC 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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Aboutness in imagination. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Stud, 2018
I present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine’s works on the notion.
Berto F.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Conceivability and possibility: some dilemmas for Humeans. [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Holographic Duality and the Physics of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Ideal reasoners don’t believe in zombies [PDF]

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2017
The negative zombie argument states that p&~q is ideally negatively conceivable and, therefore, possible, what would entail that physicalism is false (Chalmers, 2002, 2010}.
Danilo Fraga Dantas
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Transcendental Arguments, Conceivability, and Global Vs. Local Skepticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper, I argue that, if transcendental arguments are to proceed from premises that are acceptable to the skeptic, the Transcendental Premise, according to which “X is a metaphysically necessary condition for the possibility of Y,” must be ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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