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Does sentience come in degrees?
This commentary is about whether sentience, or what philosophers call “phenomenal consciousness,” comes in degrees.
Andrew Y. Lee
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There is no way to include invertebrates within the moral sphere without being “extreme” — to use Mikhalevich & Powell’s term. This is because of the profound difficulties in correctly attributing sentience.
Eric Dietrich, Tara Fox Hall
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Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England
The Old English text Solomon and Saturn includes a list of materials from which Adam, the first man, is made. A pound of cloud constitutes his modes unstaðelfæstnes [mind’s unsteadfastness / instability].
Merel Veldhuizen
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Kielen, kulttuurin ja kognition filosofiaa rationalismista romantiikkaan.
Timo Kaitaro’s Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes (Leiden: Brill, 2022) is an ambitious and detailed treatise on the history of the philosophy of language and mind.
Matti Huttunen
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Precaution, proportionality and proper commitments
Birch’s extension of the precautionary principle (PP) is plausible but raises issues about how proportionality ought to be incorporated into law. Following Steel (2013), I suggest that the PP is best considered as a meta-norm, and as such any resulting ...
Colin Klein
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The Explanation of Gradational Dualism in Sadraean Psychology and its Status in Theories of the Philosophy of Mind [PDF]
Mulla Sadra proves that the mind is an abstract being. But it is not something distinct from the body that requires substance dualism, i.e. to demonstration of soul or soul’s faculties such as imagination, doesn't make the identity of person dual.
Majid Shamsabadi Hoseini +1 more
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Appraising evidence for valence
I make some remarks about whether evidence of valenced responses constitutes evidence of valenced states, and therefore of sentience, in organisms.
Víctor Carranza-Pinedo
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Scepticism about moral superiority
Chapman & Huffman suggest that we might change people’s behavior toward animals by resisting an argument that because humans are intellectually superior to animals, they are also morally superior to animals.
Derek Ball, Benjamin Sachs
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On Arguments for Immateriality of the Soul by Avicenna and Mullā Ṣadrā
I seek to explicate the ways in which the soul is deemed immaterial in two main strands of Islamic philosophy and then consider with the physicalistic approach some arguments for the immateriality of the soul. To do so, I first overview Avicenna's theory
Mahdi Homazadeh Abyaneh
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