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A Discretionary Case for Preservationism about Free Will

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2022
How does the term ‘free will’ refer? This question seems to lie at the center of debates about whether the attitudes and practices that depend on our successful attributions of basic-desert-entailing moral responsibility ought to be preserved or ...
Kelly McCormick
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Popper et le problème du corps et de l’âme

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2007
The mind-body problem is one of the main centers of reflexion of contemporary philosophy. Generally coming from the supposed failure of the Cartesian interactionist dualism, most philosophers of the mind adopt a physicalist ontology.
Thomas Chabin
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Gricean metacommunication

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 318-339, June 2026.
Three main approaches exist for finessing the cognitive demands of Grice's model of communication (a notorious problem): namely, deflationism, modularity, and interpretivism. Here, I consider each in light of human metacommunication, a phenomenon that has been neglected in foundational discussions of Gricean communication.
Ronald J. Planer
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Negatio non cognoscitur nisi per affirmationem: Some Remarks on Negation Parasitism in John Duns Scotus’s Writings

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021
The aim of this paper is to detect and assess some parasitic aspects that characterize John Duns Scotus’s account of negation, with a major focus on epistemology and theology.
Matteo Maserati
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The Philosophy of Language Models

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human‐like linguistic and cognitive capacities, whereas others ascribe it to shallow pattern matching.
Raphaël Millière, Cameron Buckner
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ELEYİCİ MATERYALİZM 'ZİHNİN TÜM İÇERİĞİNİ' ELEMEYİ Mİ ÖNERİR?

Felsefe Dünyası, 2017
Eleştirmenleri Patricia ve Paul Churchland'ın 'halk psikolojisi' diye adlandırılan kuramın içindeki pek çok varlık kategorisi artık yok sayılacak ve tarihin çöplüğüne gömülecektir dediğini iddia eder. Bu da eleyici materyalizm anlamına gelir.
Serdal- Berk Tümkaya-yaylım
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Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 707-723, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non‐overlapping categories. By contrast, eliminativism denies that any principled, theoretically useful distinction exists between perception and cognition.
Jacob Beck, Casey O'Callaghan
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Ways of being a mess: distinguishing heterogeneity from pluralistic eliminativism [PDF]

There are two forms of argument for eliminativism which ought to be distinguished, but which generally are not. One of these, heterogeneity eliminativism, starts from the claim that the extension of a given term is heterogeneous, that is, does not form a

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Does Art Pluralism Lead to Eliminativism?

Estetika
A critical note on Christopher Bartel and Jack M. C. Kwong, ‘Pluralism, Eliminativism, and the Definition of Art’, Estetika 58 (2021): 100–113. Art pluralism is the view that there is no single, correct account of what art is.
P. D. Magnus, Christy Mag Uidhir
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Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory

SAGE Open, 2014
The article argues that the importation into psychoanalytic theory of the terms “self” and “subject” is neither true to Freud’s intentions, nor necessary, nor helpful.
Alex Watson
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