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Knowing‐How to Transform: Imagination and Unprecedented Experience Across Domains
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 57, Issue 1-4, Page 50-56, October 2026.ABSTRACT Transformative experience has been discussed primarily in terms of changes in phenomenal and evaluative perspective that alter both our epistemic status and the core traits of who we are. This paper identifies a further form of epistemic transformation involving the acquisition of unprecedented know‐how: practical knowledge that cannot be ...
Silvana Pani
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 343-348, October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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Phenomenal consciousness: its scope and limits. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciHumphrey N.
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The Motive of Duty and Kantian Moral Worth
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 349-361, October 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian ethics, but to any ...
Samuel Kahn
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Three types of phenomenal consciousness and their functional roles: unfolding the ALARM theory of consciousness. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciNewen A, Montemayor C.
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On Kant's Definition of Analogy
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 5, October 2026.ABSTRACT In the Prolegomena, Kant offers his official definition of analogy in terms of the perfect similarity of the relations holding for completely dissimilar pairs. Although interpreters neglect to reconstruct Kant's views on similarity, they often cite the Prolegomena definition and take it to characterise analogy as the identity of two relations.
Roberto Leone Zellini
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The Grammatical Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 5, October 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the structural parallels between Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thought, focusing on the idea of grammatical frameworks. My central claim is that Kuhn's concept of paradigm and its later, more language‐centred forms in his philosophy can be read as a Wittgensteinian grammatical ...
Umut Morkoç
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Phenomenal consciousness in Chalmers
, 2007 This essay is on ‘Phenomenal Consciousness’. By introducing the ‘hard problem’ of phenomenal consciousness, I will focus on Chalmers’ efforts on developing a theory of consciousness, which he believes is a project toward finding a solution to the hard problem. As a result of focusing on the hard problem, this paper deals with the questions such as “how
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Physicalism and Phenomenal Consciousness
, 2010 The following thesis is concerned with the contemporary debate in the philosophy of mind surrounding the nature of phenomenal consciousness (viz. subjective experience, or qualia). My primary aim is to adjudicate the ongoing dialectic between dualists and physicalists regarding the ontological status of phenomenal consciousness — physical or ...
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Commentary: The Concept of a Bewusstseinskultur
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Sascha Benjamin Fink +2 more
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