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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Illusionism and the Epistemological Problems Facing Phenomenal Realism [PDF]

, 2016
Illusionism about phenomenal properties has the potential to leave us with all the benefit of taking consciousness seriously and far fewer problems than those accompanying phenomenal realism.
Ross, Amber
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The Value of Consciousness [PDF]

, 2019
Recent work within such disparate research areas as the epistemology of perception, theories of well-being, animal and medical ethics, the philosophy of consciousness, and theories of understanding in philosophy of science and epistemology has featured ...
Kriegel, Uriah
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What We Can Learn about Phenomenal Concepts from Wittgenstein’s Private Language

Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2016
This paper is both systematic and historical in nature. From a historical viewpoint, I aim to show that to establish Wittgenstein’s claim that “an ‘inner process’ stands in need of outward criteria” (PI §580) there is an enthymeme in Wittgenstein’s ...
Roberto Sá Pereira
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A Dualist Account of Phenomenal Concepts [PDF]

, 2014
The phenomenal concept strategy is considered a powerful response to anti-physicalist arguments. This physicalist strategy aims to provide a satisfactory account of dualist intuitions without being committed to ontological dualist conclusions.
Fürst, Martina
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Modeling Mental Qualities [PDF]

, 2021
Conscious experiences are characterized by mental qualities, such as those involved in seeing red, feeling pain, or smelling cinnamon. The standard framework for modeling mental qualities represents them via points in geometrical spaces, where distances ...
Lee, Andrew Y.
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Twofold pictorial experience, propositional imagining and recognitional concepts: a critique of Walton’s visual make-believe

Phenomenology and Mind, 2018
Kendall Walton has defined pictorial experience as a visual game of make-believe, which consists in imagining our actual seeing the representational prop to be a fictional face to face seeing the represented subject.
Marco Arienti
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Observer Dreams: Criteria and Frequency

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerous theories of dreaming consider embodied self‐representation and participation in dream events as key features. However, past studies suggest that the dream self is absent or an uninvolved observer in over 10% of adult REM dreams. Further, these dreams can be similarly elaborate and of comparable narrative structure to participatory ...
Darren M. Lipnicki
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Explanatory Phenomenal naïve realism must be non-objectivist

Griot
This study focuses on a particular type of Naïve Realism known as objectivism, which suggests that the explanation of perceptual phenomenology is based on environmental things that the subject becomes acquainted with.
Ícaro Miguel Ibiapina Machado
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Embodied mind and phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

Argument, 2015
In recent years, a central debate in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science concerns the role of the body in perception and cognition. For many contemporary philosophers, not only cognition but also perception is connected mainly with the brain ...
Maria VENIERI
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