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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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Le proprietà estetiche e la natura linguistico-cognitiva della sopravvenienza estetica. A ritroso: da Jerrold Levinson a Thomas Reid

Diciottesimo Secolo
. The relationship between aesthetic and non-aesthetic properties is the subject of theoretical investigation by Jerrold Levinson and Thomas Reid. According to Reid, non-aesthetic properties are perceptual properties that are inherent to so-called ...
Maurizio Maione
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A Theory of Sense‐Data

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account

Zygon, 2000
Strong forms of dualism and eliminative materialism block any significant dialogue between the neurosciences and theology. The present article thus challenges the Sufficiency Thesis, according to which neuroscientific explanations will finally be ...
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Fisicalismo sem identidade

Trans/Form/Ação, 2022
O artigo apresenta e discute as tentativas mais influentes de caracterizar o fisicalismo sem postular relações de identidade entre o que é físico e o que é prima facie não físico.
Rodrigo A. dos S. Gouvea
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Beyond Supervenience and Construction

Journal of Social Ontology, 2014
I assume that identity theories and reductive strategies generally about the relationship between both the physical and the mental and the non-social and the social fail and I remind the reader why this is so.
David-Hillel Ruben
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Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
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Superweniencja – pytanie o trywialność [PDF]

Avant, 2011
When it comes to the mind-body problem, different kinds of physicalism were the most popular approaches among philosophers. The presence of anomalous monism with its lack of (the) laws concerning mental events and multiple realizability led to a doubt ...
Błażej Brzostek
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