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Is Having a Pain Having an Unshareable Particular?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do I have something no one else can have when I am in pain? This puzzle about the so‐called ‘privacy of ownership’ of sensations is a special case of the problem of whether the states and qualities of a subject are particulars. (For if someone ‘has’ a pain, then that someone ‘is in’ a pain state and vice versa.) The debate addressing the ...
Bernhard Ritter
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The View From the Centre: Recovering Nagel's Objective Self
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Thomas Nagel highlighted a puzzle in accommodating the subjective fact that I am TN within an objective, centerless conception of reality. He rejected the “semantic diagnosis,” which treats “I” as an indexical as trivial, and proposed instead the concept of the “objective self.” In this paper, I do two things: first, I defend the semantic ...
Clas Weber
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I present a theory of attunement, the agent's readiness to attend to a target. I focus on attunement to reasons for action, and in particular, on sensitivity to moral reasons. After noting that many claims regarding moral perception are better construed as claims regarding moral attention, I separate perceptual from attentional ...
Wayne Wu
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Reality, Truth, and Detachment: Comparing Buddhist Thought with Western Philosophy and Science
PhilosophiesThe present work, employing the tools provided by comparative philosophy, aims to address several fundamental concepts, including the theme of objective reality linked to the theme of subjective experience, and the theme of absolute truth connected to ...
Aldo Stella, Federico Divino
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious, despite strong apparent reasons to the contrary. To this end, I present a picture on which algorithmic AI systems comprise dispositional properties that realize categorical phenomenal properties where the ...
Samuel Kimpton‐Nye
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Gestalt TheoryThe understanding of sexuality (and sex therapy) depends very much on whether a more narrowly somatic or more broadly phenomenal perspective is adopted. The presentation transfers the fundamental concern of Critical Realism, namely to take a position on ...
Fuchs Thomas
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Which Thoughts Require Sensory Capacities?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is it possible that something—say, an alien, an angel, or an artificial system—thinks without having or ever having had any sensory capacity? If so, what could such a thing think? An extreme nativist view on this issue is that it's possible to think every thought—alternatively, every thinkable thought—without having or having had any sensory ...
Pär Sundström
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Attention and the Relevance Problem
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relevance problem is the problem of how cognitive systems can be sensitive to what is relevant despite relevance being holistic, open‐ended, and context‐sensitive. The problem has typically been applied to higher‐order cognitive processes.
Jelle Bruineberg
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Phenomenal Concepts as Complex Demonstratives [PDF]
Res Philosophica, 2021 Nathan Robert Howard, N. G. Laskowski
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