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The Hard Problem Isn't Getting Any Easier: Thoughts on Chalmers' "Meta-problem"
(2020)Chalmers’ meta-problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining “problem reports”; i.e. reports to the effect that phenomenal consciousness has the various features that give rise to the hard problem. Chalmers (2018, ... -
How to Do Things with Things: Brentano s Reism and its Limits.
(de Gruyter, 2015) -
How to Explain the Direction of Time
(2022)Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated subsystems are oriented towards the future and not the past, and why we ... -
"Human Nature and the Right to Coerce in Kant's Doctrine of Right".
(2014)This paper explores the alleged role of a conception of human nature for Kant’s justification of the duty to leave the state of nature and the related right to coerce others to enter the civil condition ... -
A human right to health?
(Edinburgh University Press, 2012) -
Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
(2021)Malebranche argues that ideas are representative beings existing in God. He defends this thesis by an inference to the best explanation of human perception. It is well known that Malebranche’s theory of vision in God ... -
The Importance of Classification in Empirical Science
(Norbertinum, 2014) -
Infinite Power and Finite Powers
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) -
Ingarden on Causation
(Peter Lang, 2016) -
Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
(2020)The logical problem of evil is the appearance of inconsistency between the existence of God and the existence of any evil at all. A defence against the logical problem of evil is an argument that purports to show that ... -
Language and Ontological Emergence
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Lexicalisation and the Origin of the Human Mind
(2014)This paper will discuss the origin of the human mind, and the qualitative discontinuity between human and animal cognition. We locate the source of this discontinuity within the language faculty, and thus take the origin ... -
Libertatea de exprimare si deplatformarea (Freedom of expression and deplatforming)
(Polirom, 2021)Some complain that either the right to freedom of speech or expression or people’s freedom is being restricted in recent times by calls for no platforming certain individuals. This paper aims to argue that such complaints ... -
Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas
(2019)A great deal of the criticism directed at Locke’s theory of abstract ideas assumes that a Lockean abstract idea is a special kind of idea which by its very nature either represents many diverse particulars or represents ... -
Luck Egalitarianism Without Moral Tyranny
(2022)Luck egalitarians contend that, while each person starts out with a claim to an equal quantity of advantage, she can forfeit this claim by making certain choices. The appeal of luck egalitarianism is that it seems to satisfy ...
