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On the Conditional Analysis of Phenomenal Concepts
Zombies make trouble for physicalism. Intuitively, they seem conceivable, and many take this to support their metaphysical possibility – a result that, most agree, would refute physicalism. John Hawthorne (2002) [Philosophical Studies 109, 17–52] and David Braddon-Mitchell (2003) [The Journal of Philosophy 100, 111–135] have developed a novel response ...
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Semantic mechanisms may be responsible for developing synesthesia
Currently, little is known about how synesthesia develops and which aspects of synesthesia can be acquired through a learning process. We review the increasing evidence for the role of semantic representations in the induction of synesthesia, and argue ...
Aleksandra eMroczko-Wąsowicz +4 more
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The Garden and the Gardener: Film, Creativity, and the Gift of Creation
Abstract In his essay ‘From God the Artist to Man the Creator’, Jean‐Louis Chrétien considers the possibility that human creativity can participate in divine creativity. As created, creative beings, Chrétien suggests that our art and other creative enterprise may become a site for participation in God's act of creation. This article takes its lead from
James Lorenz
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Le mouvement ou la chair : deux conceptions de la profondeur ontologique selon Patočka et Merleau-Ponty [PDF]
Both Patočka and Merleau-Ponty conceive the world not just as an Object, but rather as a field of an irreducible phenomenal and ontological depth. Patočka’s concept of movement and Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh are two concrete figures of this depth ...
Jan Halák
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On Loving in Order to Know: Marion and Lonergan on Religious Experience
Abstract In what follows, I consider Lonergan's account of the nature of religious experience in comparison with the work of contemporary phenomenologist and philosopher of religion Jean‐Luc Marion, arguing that despite important differences in philosophical method both authors conclude that a particular form of love is the defining characteristic of ...
Gregory P. Floyd
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SELFHOOD AT THE FRAGILE BORDER OF (AB)NORMALITY
Selfhood at the Fragile Border of (Ab)normality. We will attempt to briefly examine the phenomenological aspects of the ontic and ontological appearance of normal selfhood and psychopathological manifestations.
Attila KOVÁCS
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Hemiolas and Displaced Metric States in Joropo
ABSTRACT Joropo, a Colombian and Venezuelan folk genre, frequently employs simultaneous and successive multi‐level hemiolas, which are often displaced from one another – features which existing models of rhythmic dissonance cannot concisely account for.
Lina S. Tabak
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Homeostasis as a foundation for adaptive and emotional artificial intelligence
Homeostasis, a fundamental biological mechanism, enables living organisms to maintain internal balance despite changing environmental conditions. Inspired by these adaptive processes, research into artificial intelligence (AI) seeks to develop systems ...
Anna Sarosiek
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Infallibility, Acquaintance, and Phenomenal Concepts
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 ...
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