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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
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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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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purity is the principle that fundamental facts only have fundamental constituents. In recent years, it has played a significant (if sometimes implicit) role in metaphysical theorizing. A philosopher will argue that a fact [p]$[p]$ contains a derivative entity and cite Purity as a reason to deny that [p]$[p]$ is fundamental. I argue that recent
Samuel Z. Elgin
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Daubert’s Naïve Realist Challenge to Husserl [PDF]
, 2019 Despite extensive discussion of naïve realism in the wider philosophical literature, those influenced by the phenomenological movement who work in the philosophy of perception have hardly weighed in on the matter.
Bower, Matt E. M.
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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Charge-transfer induced large nonlinear optical properties of small Al Clusters: Al4M4
, 2004 We investigate the linear and nonlinear electric polarizabilities of small Al4M4 (M=Li, Na and K) clusters. Quantum chemical calculations reveal that these compounds exhibit an exceptionally high magnitude of linear and nonlinear optical (NLO ...
Datta, Ayan, Pati, Swapan K.
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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Transformative Impact: The Environmental Significance of Religious Conversions
Open Theology, 2019 This paper concentrates on the transformative impact of religious conversions. I understand religious conversions here as all individual spiritual transformations that either create an essentially new religious experience or substantially intensify an ...
Nitsche Martin
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Immediate and Reflective Senses [PDF]
, 2019 This paper argues that there are two distinct kinds of senses, immediate senses and reflective senses. Immediate senses are what we are immediately aware of when we are in an intentional mental state, while reflective senses are what we understand of an ...
Mendelovici, Angela
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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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