The Zombie Argument - Utrecht University Repository
... way that non-physical properties play any role in the explanation of physical effects. So far, all the evidence suggests that the whole physical world is closed under causation.5 However, I will not discuss the causal closure of the physical any further in this thesis, but take it as an important th ...
... way that non-physical properties play any role in the explanation of physical effects. So far, all the evidence suggests that the whole physical world is closed under causation.5 However, I will not discuss the causal closure of the physical any further in this thesis, but take it as an important th ...
Varieties of Supervenience
... To suggest such a model, I take inspiration here from the Buddhist notion of Swasamvedana or autoreflexive awareness (as laid out in Matilal, 1986), the notion of awareness events that are self-aware5. According to the model laid out by Matilal, an awareness event is like a lamp/light-bulb, it has t ...
... To suggest such a model, I take inspiration here from the Buddhist notion of Swasamvedana or autoreflexive awareness (as laid out in Matilal, 1986), the notion of awareness events that are self-aware5. According to the model laid out by Matilal, an awareness event is like a lamp/light-bulb, it has t ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... philosopher Bertrand Russell put it like this, “matter has become as ghostly as anything in a spiritualist’s séance” 1927 (p. 104). Russell’s point: if matter is as ghostly as mind, there is no pressing problem as to how mind could be material. Hempel’s Dilemma Philosophers of mind, who claim that t ...
... philosopher Bertrand Russell put it like this, “matter has become as ghostly as anything in a spiritualist’s séance” 1927 (p. 104). Russell’s point: if matter is as ghostly as mind, there is no pressing problem as to how mind could be material. Hempel’s Dilemma Philosophers of mind, who claim that t ...
LECTURE 24
... INTERACTIONISM HAS PROBLEMS MANY PHILOSOPHERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY SEEING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A NONPHYSICAL THING TO CAUSALLY INTERACT WITH A PHYSICAL THING (HOW CAN I, IF I AM A NON-PHYSICAL THING, CAUSE PHYSICAL CHANGES IN MY BODY?) ...
... INTERACTIONISM HAS PROBLEMS MANY PHILOSOPHERS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY SEEING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A NONPHYSICAL THING TO CAUSALLY INTERACT WITH A PHYSICAL THING (HOW CAN I, IF I AM A NON-PHYSICAL THING, CAUSE PHYSICAL CHANGES IN MY BODY?) ...