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Physicalism or Anti-physicalism: A Disjunctive Account [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2022
AbstractIn this paper, we make a case for the disjunctive view of phenomenal consciousness: consciousness is essentially disjunctive in being either physical or non-physical in the sense that it has both physical and non-physical possible instances.
Baysan, Umut, Wildman, Nathan
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Toward a true understanding of consciousness: the explanatory power behind the non-physicalist paradigm [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
This article addresses the question of which metaphysical paradigm is most suitable for gaining a deeper understanding of our conscious inner life and bringing us closer to a powerful theory of consciousness (TOC).
Joachim Keppler
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Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Most physicalists believe that physicalism is a thesis that denies the existence of fundamental mentality either as a substance or as a property. Therefore, since most physicalists also endorse a posteriori physicalism, according to them, if the future ...
Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht
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Considering the “Property-Based” of the Physical in the Definition of Physicalism according to the Latest View of Islamic Philosophers [PDF]

تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی, 2023
Various viewpoints have been expressed in favor and against physicalism; But the requirement for accurate assessment of physicalism is to have a correct understanding of physicalism. In this article, apart from criticizing physicalism, we want to reach a
Mohammad Hassan Fatemi neia
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A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
In passing remarks, some commentators have noted that for Nagel, physicalism is true. It has even been argued that Nagel seeks to find the best path to follow to achieve future physicalism. I advance these observations by adding that for Nagel, we should
Serdal Tümkaya
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Physicalism [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter considers potential applications of grounding to the formulation of physicalism. I begin with an overview of competing conceptions of the physical and of physicalism.
Bryant, Amanda
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A Dilemma about the Mental [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
Physicalism demands an explication of what it means for something to be physical. But the most popular way of providing one—viz., characterizing the physical in terms of the postulates of a scientifically derived physical theory—is met with serious ...
Guy Dove, Andreas Elpidorou
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The colored-brain thesis

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
The “colored-brain thesis”, or strong qualitative physicalism, is discussed from historical and philosophical perspectives. This thesis was proposed by Thomas Case (1888), in a non-materialistic context, and is close to views explored by H. H.
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.
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ON UNDERSTANDING PHYSICALISM* [PDF]

Kriterion, 2018
This paper aims at exposing a strategy to organize the debate around physicalism. Our starting point (following Stoljar 2010) is the pre-philosophical notion of physicalism, which is typically formulated in the form of slogans.
Julia Telles de Menezes
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NON-REDUCTIVE PHYSICALISM FOR AGI [PDF]

Filozofia i Nauka, 2022
Creature consciousness provides a physicalist account of the first-person awareness (contra Rosenthal). I argue that non-reductive consciousness is not about phenomenal qualia (Nagel’s what it is like to feel like something else); it is about the stream ...
Piotr (Peter) Bołtuć
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