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Kim on Causation and Mental Causation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Jaegwon Kim’s views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation.
Raatikainen, Panu
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Kinding Culture

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
wiley   +1 more source

Inference Rules, Emergent Wholes and Supervenient

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
Computer images are “emergent wholes” in relation to their pixels. This may seem to suggest that there cannot be any valid formal inference rule connecting such images with their constituents.
Ingvar Johansson
doaj  

THE IDEALIST VIEW OF DIVINE ACTION IN NATURE

open access: yesZygon, 2020
Theologies of divine action in nature have sought to maximize traction with the sciences to secure their credibility. While varying in significant ways, all extant proposals share a commitment to physical realism, the claim that (at least some) physical
doaj   +2 more sources

On Many-Minds Interpretations of Quantum Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This paper is a response to some recent discussions of many-minds interpretations in the philosophical literature. After an introduction to the many-minds idea, the complexity of quantum states for macroscopic objects is stressed.
Donald, Matthew J.
core   +1 more source

Is there introspective evidence for phenomenal intentionality? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The so-called transparency of experience (TE) is the intuition that, in introspecting one’s own experience, one is only aware of certain properties (like colors, shapes, etc.) as features of (apparently) mind-independent objects.
Bordini, Davide
core   +3 more sources

We‐Mode as Layered Agency

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Lukas Schwengerer
wiley   +1 more source

Social movements and the synecdoche problem

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 385-412, June 2026.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Yes to Realism! No to Non-naturalism! [PDF]

open access: yesKritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2009
According to contemporary moral realism a moral property, like goodness or badness, is either a natural (descriptive) property or a non-natural (nondescriptive) property of actions or situations. Contemporary moral naturalists like Richard Boyd, Nicholas
Ulysses T. Araña
doaj  

Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 87-109, March 2026.
Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena)
Tobias Schlicht
wiley   +1 more source

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