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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
wiley   +1 more source

The Gradability of ‘Conscious’

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
wiley   +1 more source

Human dignity and ontological foundations: a philosophical perspective for the health professions. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Frantz P, Rego F, Barbas S.
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Practical Necessity of the Categories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kant tells us that we cannot know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of sensibility. Can we know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of understanding? Recent discussion of this issue has focused on whether Kant thinks this can be decided from the theoretical point of view.
Anil Gomes, Andrew Stephenson
wiley   +1 more source

Cracks in the pattern: Gallagher's theory of the self and the dynamics of schizophrenic selfhood. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Fazakas I, Fuchs T, Thoma S, Bois C, Gozé T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How to Think About Tacit (or Implicit) Beliefs

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper defends a novel theory of tacit belief (sometimes called “implicit belief”). After providing some background and taxonomy, I argue that dispositionalist theories of belief fail to provide a good account of tacit beliefs; this failure gives us a reason to reject those dispositionalist theories.
Andrew Moon
wiley   +1 more source

The spiritual core of the hard problem: consciousness as foundational, not emergent. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Arora A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Normativity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a growing number of philosophers come to defend normative nihilism. Even if their arguments do not induce in many a belief in normative nihilism, there may be grounds on which to be less than certain about the falsity of normative nihilism.
Lewis Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Reflective analysis on empirical theories in consciousness. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Pae H.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Distinctness of Objects Near and Far

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers working on the metaphysics of persistence typically do not extend their views to the distinctness of objects at a single time. I argue that we can provide criteria to distinguish objects across time if and only if we can provide criteria to distinguish objects at a time. Furthermore, I endorse a stronger claim.
Erica Shumener
wiley   +1 more source