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Which Thoughts Require Sensory Capacities?

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is it possible that something—say, an alien, an angel, or an artificial system—thinks without having or ever having had any sensory capacity? If so, what could such a thing think? An extreme nativist view on this issue is that it's possible to think every thought—alternatively, every thinkable thought—without having or having had any sensory ...
Pär Sundström
wiley   +1 more source

Vague Mereology and Borderline Connections

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The summit of Mt Everest is determinately part of it; parts of the Khumbu Glacier are determinately not. In between are a range of candidate parts whose mereological status with respect to Mt Everest is unsettled. Among the various accounts of vagueness, supervaluationism has received a great deal of attention.
A. J. Cotnoir, Giulia Schirripa
wiley   +1 more source

Two Moralities of Recognition

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morality of recognition maintains that moral norms have their authority in virtue of the ways in which those norms enact an ideal moral relationship. T. M. Scanlon argues that this approach can yield an account of the distinctive force of morality and an attractive account of moral motivation. We find this approach to theorizing about morals
Barry Maguire, Oded Na'aman
wiley   +1 more source

Illuminating consciousness. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Murray CH   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Question of Referentiality

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic Insight and Aspect Perception

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In psychotherapy patients gain new insights into their mental life. Although philosophers have used examples from psychotherapy to make points in debates on self‐knowledge, there has been little serious effort to understand the nature and epistemology of therapeutic insight events. The paper fills that gap.
Adrian Kind, William Child
wiley   +1 more source

There Are No Abilities to Succeed

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
wiley   +1 more source

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