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Fictionalism of Anticipation. [PDF]
Biosemiotics, 2021 AbstractA promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence.
Vidunas R.
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Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference; and (2) if so, to assess which ...
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead +2 more
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What makes you think you are conscious? An agnosticist manifesto [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 The qualitative character of consciousness, its what-it-is-likeness, is a contested issue, both in philosophy and psychology. I argue that, rather than by conceptual analyses, the status of what-it-is-likeness has to be decided by empirical investigation.
Cees evan Leeuwen, Cees evan Leeuwen
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In Defence of the Phenomenological Objection to Mental Fictionalism [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 In this paper, we defend the main claims of our earlier paper “Mental Fictionalism as an Undermotivated Theory” (in The Monist) from Gábor Bács’s criticism, which appeared in his “Mental fictionalism and epiphenomenal qualia” (in Dialectica).
Miklós Márton, János Tőzsér
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The Second Revolution of Moral Fictionalism
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 If our moral beliefs rest on a mistake, as moral error theorists claim, what should we do with them? According to Richard Joyce’s revolutionary moral fictionalism, error theorists should pretend to believe moral propositions in order to keep the benefits
Eline Gerritsen
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Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual.
Eleonora Orlando
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Les miracles sont-ils des fictions ?
ThéoRèmes, 2021 The waters part at the Crossing of the Red Sea by the Hebrews. Water is turned into wine by Jesus at the Wedding Feast at Cana. For Christians, these miraculous events have really or truly happened.
Roger Pouivet
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022 This paper develops a proposal about the metaphysics of gender by focusing on the question, what is it to be a woman? In recent years, the view that it is a matter of self-identifying as a woman has become increasingly popular outside of philosophical ...
Heather Logue
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Fictionalism and the problem of universals in the philosophy of mathematics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2018 Many long-standing problems pertaining to contemporary philosophy of mathematics can be traced back to different approaches in determining the nature of mathematical entities which have been dominated by the debate between realists and ...
Đorđević Strahinja
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 According to widely accepted views in metasemantics, the outputs of chatbots and other artificial text generators should be meaningless. They aren’t produced with communicative intentions and the systems producing them are not following linguistic ...
Fintan Mallory
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