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Perceptual occlusion and the differentiation condition
Numerous philosophers accept the differentiation condition , according to which one does not see an object unless one visually differentiates it from...
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Properties, Collections, and the Successive Addition Argument: A Reply to Malpass
The Successive Addition Argument (SAA) is one of the key arguments espoused by William Lane Craig for the thesis that the universe began to exist....
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Natalie Duddington and perceptual knowledge of other minds
This paper concerns the Russian émigrée translator and philosopher Natalie Duddington (1886–1972). By establishing Duddington’s dependence on...
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Dretske’s Naturalistic Representationalism and Privileged Accessibility Thesis
The objective of the current paper is to provide a critical analysis of Dretske’s defense of the naturalistic version of the privileged accessibility...
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The Categorical Conceptions of Laws
This chapter is devoted to a presentation and critique of the categorical conceptions of laws. For categorical monists, only categorical properties...
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How to Know That You’re Not a Zombie
I am aware of the tree and its leaves, but am I aware of my awareness of these things? When I try to introspect my awareness, I just find myself...
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Should dualists locate the physical basis of experience in the head?
Dualism holds that experiences are non-physical states that exist alongside physical states. Dualism leads to the postulation of psychophysical laws...
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Simple Remembering
Dretske has provided very influential arguments that there is a difference between our sensory awareness of objects and our awareness of facts about...
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Counting to infinity, successive addition, and the length of the past
The Successive Addition Argument (SAA) is one of the arguments proposed by the defenders of the Kalām Cosmological Argument to support the claim that...
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Natural information, factivity and nomicity
Biological and cognitive sciences rely heavily on the idea of information transmitted between natural events or processes. This paper critically...
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Categorical Monism, Laws, and the Inference Problem
A well-known difficulty that affects all accounts of laws of nature according to which the latter are higher-order facts involving relations between...
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Against relationalism about modality
On a highly influential way to think of modality, that I call ‘relationalism’, the modality of a state is explained by its being composed of...
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Bayesian sensitivity principles for evidence based knowledge
In this paper, I propose and defend a pair of necessary conditions on evidence-based knowledge which bear resemblance to the troubled sensitivity...
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The Factualist Interpretation of the Skeptical Solution and Semantic Primitivism
According to the factualist interpretation, the skeptical solution to the skeptic’s problem hinges on rejecting inflationary accounts of semantic...
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Information and explanation: an inconsistent triad and solution
An important strand in philosophy of science takes scientific explanation to consist in the conveyance of some kind of information (e.g., Lewis,
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Representation, Attention, and Perceptual Learning
What sorts of properties we perceive matters for understanding the nature of perception and the scope of perceptual justification. One way of arguing...
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The Dual-Explananda Defence
In this chapter, I discuss the view that complete explanations of cognitive phenomena require accounting for explananda which cannot be explained...
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Naïve Realism as Psychosemantics
For those who think the notion of representation plays a critical role in visual perception, a pressing question—at least for those who are...
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The Sceptic, The Outsider, and Other Minds
The usual way with scepticism is to formulate a problem in connection with the external world and then apply this to other minds. Drawing on work by...
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Uncertainty in Blurry Vision
This chapter provides an account of the perceptual unclarity in blurry visual experiences. The account is framed in terms of attitudes of perceptual...