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Representationalism and the Spatial Representational Contents of Afterimage Experiences

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experiences of afterimages have often been cited as counterexamples to representationalism about vision, that is, as counterexamples to the thesis that the phenomenal character of a visual experience is completely determined by its representational content. In this paper, I discuss a possible counterexample to representationalism that is based
René Jagnow
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
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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Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters. By Rach Cosker‐Rowland, Oxford University Press, 2025. 368 pp. $40.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐894798‐1

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
Alex Byrne
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The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
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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