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Supervenience and Psycho-Physical Dependence [PDF]
, 2000 Debates about supervenience have cooled off over the past few years. Those that remain tend to focus either on technical points concerning the modal force of—or connections between—different formulations of the relation, or on issues of reduction ...
Campbell, Neil
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Phenomenological Ontology and Supervenience [PDF]
, 2015 The term ‘supervenience’ has acquired central status in contemporary philosophy in the wake of Davidson’s discussion (1970) of mental e physical properties.
A. Zhok
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Natural Properties, Supervenience, and Mereology
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018 The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especially when it comes to the bearers of natural properties.
Andrea Borghini, Giorgio Lando
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THE METAPHYSICS OF DOWNWARD CAUSATION: REDISCOVERING THE FORMAL CAUSE
Zygon, 2013 The methodological nonreductionism of contemporary biology opens an interesting discussion on the level of ontology and the philosophy of nature. The theory of emergence (EM), and downward causation (DC) in particular, bring a new set of arguments ...
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Semantyczne założenia sceptycyzmu kartezjańskiego (Semantic Presuppositions of Cartesian Skepticism) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010 The paper purports to show that in order to formulate the hypothesis that all our beliefs are collectively false – which is taken to be the core of Cartesian skepticism – one must accept the presumption that semantic properties of subject`s beliefs ...
Krzysztof Posłajko
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Rogera Sperry’ego teoria świadomości
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2017 Roger W. Sperry (1913–1994) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1981 for his outstanding scientific achievements in connection with the study of people with severed brain commissures.
Józef Bremer
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DIVINE AGENCY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Zygon, 2009 Many contemporary thinkers seeking to integrate theistic belief and scientific thought reject what they regard as two extremes. They disavow deism in which God is understood simply to uphold the existence of the physical universe, and they exclude any ...
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Independence and the Levels of Selection
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in BiologyThe idea that selection can go in opposite directions or, more generally, be independent at different levels is well entrenched in both the biological and philosophical literatures. However, this idea is difficult to render precise. On the face of it, it
Pierrick Bourrat
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