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ABSTRACT I give an argument for a version of the principle of sufficient reason from several plausible principles about negative facts and sufficient conditions. I then give an argument for a slightly weaker version of the principle without the reference to negative facts.
Stephen Harrop
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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Neurophysiological evidence of single-shot semantic mapping in the developing brain. [PDF]
Vasilyeva MJ +7 more
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants. [PDF]
Dautriche I, Chemla E.
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Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach
ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes +1 more
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Analytical approach of synchronous and asynchronous update schemes applied to solving biological Boolean networks. [PDF]
Bensussen A +3 more
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