Browsing by Subject "Philosophy of mind"

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    • Arnauld's Verbal Distinction between Ideas and Perceptions 

      PEARCE, KENNETH (2016)

    • Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism 

      White, Benjamin (2017)
      The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical ...

    • Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy 

      Pearce, Kenneth (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 ...

    • Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil 

      Pearce, Kenneth (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 ...

    • Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas 

      Pearce, Kenneth (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 ...

    • Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind 

      Jones, Alexander David (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)
      This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ...

    • Metaphysical Necessity Dualism 

      White, Benjamin (2018)
      A popular response to the Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that mental events depend on their physical bases in such a way that the causation of a physical effect by a mental event and its physical base needn’t ...

    • Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge 

      Pearce, Kenneth (2020)
      The central unifying element in the philosophy of Peter Browne (d. 1735) is his theory of analogy. Although Browne's theory was originally developed to deal with some problems about religious language, Browne regards analogy ...

    • The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts 

      White, Benjamin (2018)
      This article argues that standard causal and functionalist definitions of realization fail to account for the realization of entities that cannot be individuated in causal or functional terms. By modifying such definitions ...