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Metaphysics of quantity and the limit of phenomenal concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Quantities like mass and temperature are properties that come in degrees. And those degrees (e.g. 5 kg) are properties that are called the magnitudes of the quantities.
Derek Lam
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Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and philosophers to advocate physicalist methods in explaining human nature ...
Samad Hosseini, Abbas Yazdani
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Cognitive Architecture and the Epistemic Gap: Defending Physicalism without Phenomenal Concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The novel approach presented in this paper accounts for the occurrence of the epistemic gap and defends physicalism against anti-physicalist arguments without relying on so-called phenomenal concepts.
P. Fazekas
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Leaving the Dream Behind: Why the Metaphysics of Consciousness cannot be Unveiled by Conceivability Arguments

open access: yesProblemos, 2023
 In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”).
Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F, 2020
According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
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Russellian Physicalists get our phenomenal concepts wrong

open access: yesPhilosophical Studies, 2023
Russellian physicalism is becoming increasingly popular because it promises to deliver what everybody wants, realism and physicalism about consciousness. But Russellian physicalists are not the first to swear on “the promise”, standard Type-B physicalism
M. Botin
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Infallibility, Acquaintance, and Phenomenal Concepts

open access: yesDialectica, 2016
In recent literature, there is a strong tendency to endorse the following argument: There are particular judgments about one's current phenomenal experiences that are infallible; if there are particular judgments about one's current phenomenal experiences that are infallible, then the infallibility of those judgments is due to the relation of ...
W. Barz
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