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Conceivability Errors and the Role of Imagination in Symbolization
n the years 1675-84, Leibniz sought to disprove Descartes’s account of clear and distinct perception by implementing a three-step argumentative strategy.
Lucia Oliveri
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Elucidating the Conceivability Argument
It shall be examined how anti-physicalist arguments give rise to the tension between those aspects of our everyday life (with focus on phenomenality) and the thesis of physicalism.
J. T. De Menezes
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Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive [PDF]
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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Van Inwagen's Modal Skepticism and The Scope of Modal knowledge [PDF]
There is a famous idea in modal epistemology according to which conceivability of a proposition is a good guide for its possibility. Yablo (1993) persents a model for justification of modal beliefs, based on which Conceivability of a proposition is ...
Masoud Zia Ali Nasab Pour
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Are pure mental states conceivable? [PDF]
The article gives critical objections to the minimal dualism argument proposed by Bogdan Faul. It is demonstrated that the method of introspection used by B. Faul in his article in order to explain subject’s access to their own mental states undermines
D. N. Razeev
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A posteriori physicalism and phenomenal concepts: The a priori synthesizable objection
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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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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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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The Modal Argument and a Rejoinder to Contingent Physicalism
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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Why Phenomenal Zombies Are Conceivable Whereas Anti-Zombies Are not
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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