Paul Bernier (Université de Moncton): Phenomenal Concepts and Physicalism
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According to what Stoljar (2005) has called the phenomenal concept strategy, the basic intuitions underlying the main antiphysicalist arguments – Kripke’s conceivability argument, the knowledge argument, the explanatory gap argument, and the zombie argument – depend on how we conceptualize our…
Kirsten Walsh (Otago): Phenomena in Newton’s Experimental Philosophy
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Newton described his Principia as a work of ‘experimental philosophy’, in which theories were supposed to be deduced from phenomena. To this end, Newton presented six ‘phenomena’: propositions that describe patterns of motion, generalised from observations of the planets, earth and moon.…
Peter Herbst Seminar: Imagining Husserl, Inside and Out
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Philosophers often distinguish between imagining things from the inside (or from the first person perspective) and imagining things from the outside (or from the third person perspective). In this talk I construct an understanding of this distinction based on Husserl’s later phenomenological theory…
Inga Vermeulen (University of Sheffield): Merely Verbal Disputes and Failing to Disagree
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Many philosophical disputes have at some point by someone been diagnosed as merely verbal, for example, disputes over whether there are tables or disputes over whether we have free will. Roughly, a dispute is merely verbal when it arises due to a confusion of some sort over an expression used in…