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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?

open access: yesAnálisis 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

open access: yesComputer 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

open access: yesCrítica, 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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There IS a Question of Physicalism

open access: yesOrganon 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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Physicalism, conceptual analysis, and acts of faith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Frank Jackson and the author each take the other to hold a position in philosophy of mind that it is extremely difficult to sustain. This chapter tries to say something about how that can be.
Hornsby, Jennifer
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The Modal Argument and a Rejoinder to Contingent Physicalism

open access: yesTheoLogica, 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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UNPARTICLE PHYSICS [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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

open access: yesErkenntnis, 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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Grounding, Analysis, and Russellian Monism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Few these days dispute that the knowledge argument demonstrates an epistemic gap between the physical facts and the facts about experience. It is much more contentious whether that epistemic gap can be used to demonstrate a metaphysical gap of a kind ...
Al-Ghazālī.   +209 more
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PAREITIS, FIZIKALISTINĖ REDUKCIJA IR PERKEISTOS KOKYBĖS

open access: yesProblemos, 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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