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Précis knihy Jaké to je, nebo o čem to je? Místo vědomí v materiálním světě [PDF]

, 2017
[Précis of What It’s Like, or What It’s About? The Place of Consciousness in the Material World] The paper provides a summary of my recent Czech-language book, WHAT IT'S LIKE, OR WHAT IT'S ABOUT?
Hribek, Tomas
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Guessing at Ghosts in the Machine

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As AI grows ever more complex and ubiquitous, its moral status becomes increasingly pressing. But knowing whether an AI has moral status is only part of the ethical puzzle. To determine how we ought to treat such entities, we must know not only whether AIs have moral status, but also about the content of their interests—what contributes to ...
Helen Yetter‐Chappell
wiley   +1 more source

The Conscious Semiotic Mind

Studia Semiotyczne, 2019
DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxi1.05 The paper discusses possible roles of consciousness in a semiotic (meaning-making) activity of a cognitive agent.
Piotr Konderak
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Why We Must Care About Animal Consciousness: Against Carruthers’ Nihilism

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
One of the most challenging positions in contemporary philosophy of animal consciousness is that proposed by Peter Carruthers (2018a, 2018b, 2019, 2020).
Victor Machado Barcellos
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On Epistemic Egalitarianism for My P-Zombie Twin: In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy [PDF]

, 2015
One current debate in philosophy of mind concerns the ontological and epistemological nature of phenomenal consciousness. Two major camps dominate this debate: property dualists and physicalists.
Smedberg, Diane
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Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
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Emergentism revisited [PDF]

, 2005
The “explanatory gap” is proposed to be the “hard problem” of\ud consciousness research and has generated a great deal of recent\ud debate.\ud Arguments brought forward to reveal this gap include the\ud conceivability of zombies or the “super ...
Musholt, Kristina
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The phenomenal brain : making room for a phenomenal-neural type identity theory of phenomenal consciousness [PDF]

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb. 25, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the ...
Hedderman, Jason, 1973-
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“The future of death in the present of love”: Eros as an ethical pas encore in Levinas's Totality and Infinity

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The Cradle of Humanity: A Psychological and Phenomenological Perspective [PDF]

, 2017
We present an account of the evolutionary development of the experiences of empathy that marked the beginning of morality and art. We argue that aesthetic and moral capacities provided an important foundation for later epistemic developments.
Horne, Spencer, Montemayor, Carlos
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