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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
Noûs, EarlyView.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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Qualitative consciousness arises at the sensory level of olfactory processing and pervades our experience of smells to the extent that qualitative character is maintained whenever we are aware of undergoing an olfactory experience.
Benjamin D. Young
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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The perception paradox: between conscious and unconscious
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis paper advances and defends an inclusive functionalist conception of perception, according to which any cognitive process that involves information selection, representation—understood in a functional sense as an internal state that carries ...
Juanjuan Cheng
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The Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I introduce the Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion (BDA). BDA makes three main claims: (a) Emotions are psychological episodes whose paradigmatic instances are constituted by coordinated changes in appraisals, action tendencies, bodily responses, and subjective feelings; (b) appraisals—which are rapid, low‐level evaluations of ...
Constant Bonard
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Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gregory Slack
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Positive beliefs about mania held by individuals with bipolar disorder: A systematic review
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To conduct a systematic review of the literature regarding positive beliefs about (hypo)mania held by individuals with bipolar disorder. Method A systematic search of five electronic databases (PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, MEDLINE, CINAHL and Web of Science) was carried out, using predefined search terms related to bipolar disorder, (hypo)
Monika Luksaite +3 more
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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Double bookkeeping and schizophrenia spectrum: divided unified phenomenal consciousness. [PDF]
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2021 Parnas J, Urfer-Parnas A, Stephensen H.
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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