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Mind &Language, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 198-217, February 2023., 2023 Philosophers disagree about what the folk concept of pain is. This aricle criticises existing theories of the folk concept of pain, that is, the mental view, the bodily view, and the recently proposed polyeidic view. It puts forward an alternative proposal—the polysemy view—according to which pain terms like “sore”, “ache” and “hurt” are polysemous ...
Michelle Liu
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Scepticism About Other Minds: Propositional and Objectual
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 200-219, April 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper, I distinguish between two kinds of knowledge of other minds: a propositional kind, whereby one may say, for example, that “We can see that he is in pain,” and an objectual (object‐related) kind which seems to be presupposed by knowledge claims about, for example, his present feeling of pain.
Raja Bahlul
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Purpose for and within Creation: A Theological Appraisal of Organismic Teleology
Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 396-409, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Although many believe that modern evolutionary biology renders teleology superfluous, this article explores the recent resurgence of attempts to locate teleology, functions, and purpose in the nature of organisms. This essay further explores the relevance of teleology within Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox traditions, and the ways ...
Mikael Leidenhag
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Donald Davidson seria um epifenomenalista?
Kalagatos, 2021 Neste artigo, exporemos e problematizaremos o monismo anômalo de Donald Davidson, destacando as ideias críticas de Jaegwon Kim a este respeito. As objeções ao monismo anômalo de Davidson que exporemos, teria como eixo central a ideia de que Davidson ...
Daniel Luporini de Faria
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A double face view on mind-brain relationship: the problem of mental causation
Trans/Form/Ação, 2023 : Interpreting results of contemporary neuroscientif studies, I present a non-reductive physicalist account of mind-brain relationship from which the criticism of unintelligibility ascribed to the notion of mental causation is considered. Assuming that a
Jonas Gonçalves Coelho
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Supervenience and Explanatory Exclusion
Crítica, 2019 This paper argues that there is an inconsistency between Jaegwon Kim's earlier work on supervenience and his more recent work on explanatory exclusion. In his work on supervenience Kim advocates an explanatory agnosticism that, by the time of his later ...
Lee McIntyre
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Pairing Problems: Causal and Christological
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2021 Trenton Merricks has objected to dualist conceptions of the Incarnation in a similar way to Jaegwon Kim’s pairing problem. On the original pairing problem, so argues Kim, we lack a pairing relationship between bodies and souls such that body A is ...
Wong Kevin W.
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THE IDEALIST VIEW OF DIVINE ACTION IN NATURE
Zygon®, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 924-947, December 2020., 2020 Abstract Theologies of divine action in nature have sought to maximize traction with the sciences to secure their credibility. While varying in significant ways, all extant proposals share a commitment to physical realism, the claim that (at least some) physical entities and facts are both mind‐independent and ontologically basic within creation ...
Edward Epsen
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Ratio, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 129-137, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Separatists are grounding theorists who hold that grounding relations and metaphysical explanations are distinct, yet intimately connected in the sense that grounding relations back metaphysical explanations, just as causal relations back causal explanations. But Separatists have not elaborated on the nature of the ‘backing’ relation.
Ylwa Sjölin Wirling
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Theoria, 2010 We discuss and analyze two reductive arguments due to Jaegwon Kim and Theodore Sider respectively. According to the first one, strong supervenience would imply necessary coextension of properties (i.e., reduction).
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