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Naming and Necessity
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In this paper, the authors make a connection between the mind-body problem and the so-called "identity thesis" in analytic philosophy, which has wide-ranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be thought far-removed.Abstract:
I hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wide-ranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be thought far-removed, like arguments over the mind-body problem or the so-called ‘identity thesis’. Materialism, in this form, often now gets involved in very intricate ways in questions about what is necessary or contingent in identity of properties — questions like that. So, it is really very important to philosophers who may want to work in many domains to get clear about these concepts. Maybe I will say something about the mind-body problem in the course of these talks. I want to talk also at some point (I don’t know if I can get it in) about substances and natural kinds.read more
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Concepts and Conceptual Analysis
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TL;DR: Conceptual analysis is undergoing a revival in philosophy, and much of the credit goes to Frank Jackson as mentioned in this paper who argues that conceptual analysis is needed as an integral component of so-called serious metaphysics and that it also does explanatory work in accounting for such phenomena as categorization, meaning change, communication, and linguistic understanding.
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Thematic subjecthood and cognitive constraints on discourse structure
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the distinction between the Thematic Subjects of the narrative and the subsidiary characters reflects a fundamental cognitive constraint on how writers and readers can represent information about different characters in a story.
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The PhyloCode: a critical discussion of its theoretical foundation
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In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy1
TL;DR: The Phenomenal Concept Strategy (PCS) as discussed by the authors is an anti-physicalist line of defense against the idea that these epistemic and conceptual gaps can be explained by appealing to the nature of the phenomenal concepts rather than the non-physical phenomenal properties.
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Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic
TL;DR: JSTOR as discussed by the authors is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship, which is used to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.