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The (Un)bearable Lightness of Being. The Cyrenaics on Residual Solipsism

Peitho, 2022
The aim of this paper is to assess the evidence on Cyrenaic solipsism and show how and why some views endorsed by the Cyrenaics appear to be committing them to solipsism. After evaluating the fascinating case for Cyrenaic solipsism, the paper shall deal
Ugo Zilioli
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Солипсизм в романной поэтике Виктора Пелевина [PDF]

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018
The philosophical doctrine of solipsism plays an extremely significant role in Viktor Pelevin’s works as a core idea which undergoes the process of formal modifications. In this paper this process is referred to as “reconfiguration”. The article presents
Mateusz Jaworski
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Everett’s Interpretation and Convivial Solipsism [PDF]

Quantum Reports, 2023
I show how the quantum paradoxes occurring when we adopt a standard realist framework (or a framework in which the collapse implies a physical change of the state of the system) vanish if we abandon the idea that a measurement is related (directly or ...
Hervé Zwirn
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Solideism – a version of solipsism

Analecta Cracoviensia
This paper marks the first extensive attempt to articulate the view I have termed solideism. I begin by exploring various interpretations of solipsism, as solideism represents a particular version of it, and establish a schematic formulation for ...
Adam Olszewski
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Living Systems Escape Solipsism by Inverse Causality to Manage the Probability Distribution of Events

Philosophies, 2021
The external worlds do not objectively exist for living systems because these worlds are unknown from within systems. How can they escape solipsism to survive and reproduce as open systems?
Toshiyuki Nakajima
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The measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics: Convivial Solipsism [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020
The problem of measurement is often considered an inconsistency inside the quantum formalism. Many attempts to solve (or to dissolve) it have been made since the inception of quantum mechanics.
Zwirn Hervé
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Sexual solipsism [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2015
The article presents a philosophical analysis of pornography and its impact. The author suggests that pornography instantiates two kinds of solipsism. The first kind of solipsism involves treating things as people; the second kind of solipsism involves ...
Rae Langton, Maciej Musiał (translator)
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Commodities and cognition. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2014
A commentary on "An enquiry concerning the nature of conceptual categories: a case-study on the social dimension of human cognition", by John Stewart (2014)in 'Frontiers in Psychology', Vol ...
Loader P.
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The boundaries that constitute us: Parasite, pandemic life, and crises of vulnerability

Artnodes, 2021
In a very literal sense, a biological organism cannot be alive on its own. I employ key premises in second-order cybernetics in current developments in philosophy of science and posthumanist thought in an attempt to speak upon the state of precarity and ...
Won Jeon
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On being a lonely brain‐in‐a‐vat: Structuralism, solipsism, and the threat from external world skepticism

Analytic Philosophy, 2023
David Chalmers has recently developed a novel strategy of refuting external world skepticism, one he dubs the structuralist solution . In this paper, I make three primary claims: First, structuralism does not vindicate knowledge of other minds, even if ...
Grace Helton
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