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Scientific Realism without the Wave-Function: An Example of Naturalized Quantum Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2019 Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories can be regarded as (approximately) true. This is connected with the view that science, physics in particular, and metaphysics could (and should) inform one another: on the one hand, science
Allori, Valia
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On Horgan's Causal Compatibilism [PDF]
, 2003 It is quite obvious why the antireductionist picture of mental causation, which rests on supervenience, is such an attractive theory. On one side it secures the mental a preservation of its unique and different nature; on the other side it tries to place
Bregant, Janez
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Teletransportation, Replication and Mereology [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The paper criticizes pessimistic views on survival into teletransporter. It is considered, in particular, the recent attempt of Alexey Kardash and Konstantin Morozov to defend the pessimists’ views by means of the criterion of mereorganic continuity ...
A. V. Nekhaev
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Daylight savings: what an answer to the perceptual variation problem cannot be [PDF]
, 2020 Significant variations in the way objects appear across different viewing conditions pose a challenge to the view that they have some true, determinate color.
Cohen, Jonathan, Michaelson, Eliot
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The Myth of Supervenient Microphysicalism [PDF]
Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2016 In this paper I focus on the analysis of the concept of the physical and its implications for the formulation of physicalism. Most of the paper is “negative,” insofar as it intends to show why the most accepted formulation of physicalism, the theory of the supervenience or complete determination of the empirical phenomena by the microphysical ...
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Can Western Monotheism Avoid Substance Dualism?
Zygon, 2001 The problem of divine agency and action is analogous to the problem of human agency and action: How is such agency possible in the absence of a dualistic causal interaction between disparate orders of being?
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Zygon, 2001 Books reviewed: Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth Christopher Southgate, Celia Deane‐Drummond, Paul D. Murray, Michael Robert Negus, Lawrence Osborn, Michael Poole, Jacqui Stewart, and Fraser Watts, (eds.) God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook ...
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Immediate and Reflective Senses [PDF]
, 2019 This paper argues that there are two distinct kinds of senses, immediate senses and reflective senses. Immediate senses are what we are immediately aware of when we are in an intentional mental state, while reflective senses are what we understand of an ...
Mendelovici, Angela
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Note on Supervenience and Definability
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1998 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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