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Commentary on Jakab's Ineffability of Qualia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Zoltan Jakab has presented an interesting conceptual analysis of the ineffability of qualia in a functionalist and classical cognitivist framework. But he does not want to commit himself to a certain metaphysical thesis on the ontology of consciousness ...
Metzinger, Thomas
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The heavy tail of extreme pain exacerbates health inequality: evidence from cluster headache underinvestment

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Research on health inequality has traditionally focused on metrics such as years of life lost and disability-adjusted life years. This paper argues that current metrics systematically undervalue health conditions causing extreme pain to patients. Cluster
Alfredo Parra-Hinojosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looking for effects of qualia on event-related brain potentials of close others in search for a cause of the similarity of qualia assumed across individuals [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2018
Qualia, the individual instances of subjective conscious experience, are private events. However, in everyday life, we assume qualia of others and their perceptual worlds, to be similar to ours.
Sheila Bouten   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an anthropology of acquisition: ‘How did you get that?’ Vers une anthropologie de l'acquisition : « Où as‐tu trouvé ça ? »

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Chalmers: A Comment on Korf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In “Qualia in a Contemporary Neurobiological Perspective”, Korf tackles the perennial issue of qualia in the philosophy of mind. His discussion is partly a response to Chalmers’ hard problem, which, as evidenced by other recent discussions in Dialogues ...
Maung, Hane Htut
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Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms ...
Cristina Voinea   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illusionism's discontent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Frankish positions his view, illusionism about qualia (a.k.a. eliminativist physicalism), in opposition to what he calls radical realism (dualism and neutral monism) and conservative realism (a.k.a. non-eliminativist physicalism). Against radical realism,
Katalin, Balog
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Dretske e o problema dos qualia

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2013
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir a sugestão de Fred Dretske (1995) para analisar o problema dos qualia. Tal problema, caro à Filosofia da Mente, ficou conhecido pela discussão desenvolvida por Thomas Nagel em seu clássico artigo What is
João Antonio de Moraes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Possibilia, Qualia, and Sensibilia

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2022
In this article I shall first and foremost attempt to show that the semantic requirements of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus intend the objects of the Tractatus to be conceived of as possibilia in the Russellian sense of 1903, i.e., as ...
Alberto Voltolini
doaj   +1 more source

From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
wiley   +1 more source

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