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An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

Contingent Grounding Physicalism

open access: yesAnalytic 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
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Sense‐Data

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
wiley   +1 more source

A physics-based ensemble machine-learning approach to identifying a relationship between lightning indices and binary lightning hazard

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science
To convert lightning indices generated by numerical weather prediction experiments into binary lightning hazard, a machine-learning tool was developed.
Andrew M. Thomas, Stephen Noble
doaj   +1 more source

Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
wiley   +1 more source

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