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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?

Análisis Filosófico, 2023
In his well-known Knowledge Argument (KA) Frank Jackson attempted to show that physicalism is false by offering a case that allegedly showed that a complete physicalist description of the world leaves something crucial out, namely the phenomenal ...
Fernando Rudy Hiller
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On the Two Abstractions of Social Information and Plato’s Theory of the Separation of Particulars and Universals

Computer Sciences & Mathematics Forum, 2023
The authors propose that the theoretical framework of Western philosophy is supported by metaphysical ontology through the differentiation and analysis of two different kinds of “particulars-universals” in Plato’s “world visible to the naked eye” and ...
Wei Yan, Xia Wang, Zongrong Li
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Wittgenstein and Physicalism

Crítica, 2018
El presente trabajo trata de esclarecer el sentido en que puede considerarse que Wittgenstein es un fisicalista, es decir, un creyente en la tesis de que el discurso científico con significado cognitivo consiste, en ultima instancia, en proposiciones ...
Rudolf Haller
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The Modal Argument and a Rejoinder to Contingent Physicalism

TheoLogica, 2023
Since the time of Descartes, various versions of a modal argument have been proffered for substance dualism. Until recently, the premise most frequently attacked is one that moves from conceivability to metaphysical possibility.
James Moreland
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There IS a Question of Physicalism

Organon F, 2019
The most common catchphrase of physicalism is: “everything is physical”. According to Hempel’s Dilemma, however, physicalism is an ill-formed thesis because it can offer no account of the physics to which it refers: current physics will definitely be ...
Orli Dahan
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Emergence, Function and Realization [PDF]

, 2019
“Realization” and “emergence” are two concepts that are sometimes used to describe same or similar phenomena in philosophy of mind and the special sciences, where such phenomena involve the synchronic dependence of some higher-level states of affairs on ...
Baysan, Umut
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UNPARTICLE PHYSICS [PDF]

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2007
Misha Shifman knows much more about conformal symmetry than I do, but I have been thinking hard about it, and I thought it would be fun to present some of my ideas as a little birthday present.
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Physicalism or Anti-physicalism: A Disjunctive Account

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, E, Wildman, N
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PAREITIS, FIZIKALISTINĖ REDUKCIJA IR PERKEISTOS KOKYBĖS

Problemos, 2007
Funkcinės psichinių savybių analizės atveriama jų materialiojo įkūnijimo įvairovės galimybė verčia materialistinį monizmą sąmonės filosofijoje formuluoti ne psichinių ir fizinių savybių tapatumo, bet pirmųjų pareities nuo antrųjų tezę.
Jonas Dagys
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PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE?

EDULEARN Proceedings, 2019
Halfway between the experiment and the focus group, between the quiz and a game, we have experienced a new format to \"focus\" on sustainability and the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and its principles. Concepts as reversibility, efficiency and entropy, are then \"visualized\" by the participants, showing the relations with the economic value ...
Domenici, D., Mazzitelli, G.
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