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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
wiley   +1 more source

O pluralismo de valores e sua importância política na obra de Bernard Williams

Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2017
RESUMO: Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir as contribuições de Bernard Williams no que tange ao pluralismo de valores e ao conflito entre liberdade e igualdade.
Jacqueline de Souza Abreu
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A Theory of Sense‐Data

Analytic 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

William James: The Mystical Experimentation of a Sick Soul

Religions
Especially in The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James developed the polar categories of healthy-minded individuals content with their once-born religion versus sick souls who need to become twice-born in order to find religious peace ...
David H. Nikkel
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Parmenides. życie jest snem bytu (Parmenides: Life Is a Dream of Being) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2011
Death is not a departure of the soul from the body – in can be so only in the road ofopinion – but a departure of the body from the soul, as it were, that is, the rectificationof cognition, having the mind to rely completely on the road of truth ...
Adam Drozdek
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Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes, Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Property dualism and the merits of solutions to the mind-body problem: a reply to Strawson [PDF]

, 2006
This paper is divided into two main sections. The first articulates what I believe Strawson's position to be. I contrast Strawson's usage of 'physicalism' with the mainstream use.
Macpherson, F.
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A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co‐instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
wiley   +1 more source

On the Naturalistic Grounds of Grounding

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether grounding can be naturalized. We adopt a tripartite framework—Ocat (scientific catalogue of existents), Otyp (ontological types), and metaphysics (natures/modal profiles)—and show that classifying as such the relata of putative grounding claims forces a dilemma.
Raoni Arroyo, Jonas R. Becker Arenhart
wiley   +1 more source

Rational Epistemics of Divine Reality Leading to Monism [PDF]

Rational epistemics is the line of reasoning inclined to reason separated from reliance on experience that ultimately leads to monism or non ...
Marbaniang, Domenic
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