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The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments [PDF]
, 2016 Famous examples of conceivability arguments include (i) Descartes’ argument for mind-body dualism, (ii) Kripke's ‘modal argument’ against psychophysical identity theory, (iii) Chalmers’ ‘zombie argument’ against materialism, and (iv) modal versions of ...
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ReligionsIn the ontological argument for the existence of God, Descartes famously argues that the idea of God is the idea of a perfect being. As such, the idea of God must combine all of the perfections.
Lucas Thorpe, Zübeyde Karadağ Thorpe
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Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics
Sign Systems Studies, 2019 Theory change is a slow, tortuous process. Problems associated with how we communicate ideas and how these ideas are received by our peers become catalysts for change in how we ourselves perceive and sanction what the discipline is capable of doing. Some
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera
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Limits of conceivability in the study of the future. Lessons from philosophy of science
Futures, 2022 Veli Virmajoki
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Neo-Naturalism, Conciliatory Explanations, and Spatiotemporal Surprises [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Some materialists believe that physics is rich enough to bridge Levine's Explanatory Gap1, while others believe that it is not. Here I promote an intermediate position holding that physics is rich enough to explain why this gap seems more intractable ...
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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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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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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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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Thought as a quasi-possibility
Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2021 Modal logic determines a lot in modern metaphysics and ontology, which delve deeper and deeper into the realm of the possible, not limited to the analysis of reality.
D. V. Ankin
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