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Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem.
- Source :
- Synthese; Feb2018, Vol. 195 Issue 2, p919-926, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper challenges the soundness of the two-dimensional conceivability argument against the derivation of phenomenal truths from physical truths (cf. Chalmers in The conscious mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996; The character of consciousness, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010) in light of a hyperintensional regimentation of the ontology of consciousness. The regimentation demonstrates how ontological dependencies between truths about consciousness and about physics cannot be witnessed by epistemic constraints, when the latter are recorded by the conceivability-i.e., the epistemic possibility-thereof. Generalizations and other aspects of the philosophical significance of the hyperintensional regimentation are further examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEMANTICS
COMPARATIVE linguistics
CONSCIOUSNESS
PHENOMENALISM
PHILOSOPHY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00397857
- Volume :
- 195
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Synthese
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127331456
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1254-2