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Qualitative experience in machines

http://onthehuman.org

Philosopher Bill Lycan defends the thesis that problems with qualitative experiences in machines apply equally to humans.

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Open access papers by L. B. Puntel

http://www.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de

L. B. Puntel is known for his magnum opus 'structure and being' (2006). Here are some papers in English and German that can be regarded as preliminary research for 'structure and being'.

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What is Recent Philosophy?

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk

There is, I think, something of a standard history of 20th Century English-speaking philosophy, at least through 1980. The broad outlines are fairly familiar.

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Matters of Substance

http://substantialmatters.blogspot.com

New group metaphysics blog. Contributors include: John Heil, Jonathan Lowe, kit, Ned Markosian, Jonathan Jacobs, Jennifer McKitrick, L.A. Paul, Robbie Williams, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Jessica Wilson, Dan López de Sa, Karen Bennett, Gabriele Contessa, Elizabeth Barnes, Ross Cameron, Thomas Hofweber, and Jonathan Schaffer.

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The Dust Hypothesis

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com

Very fun argument worth considering. It's for the conclusion that there is a mental duplicate of you that IS spread out (and widely scattered) over all of space and time.

Something seems to have gone wrong - check the post out to see where Schwitzgebel thinks it goes wrong.

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Indeterminate Truthmaking

http://metaphysicalvalues.blogspot.com

If some claim is indeterminately true, then either there is something that makes that claim indeterminately true or there is not. If there is something that makes the claim indeterminately true, then what kind of thing is this indeterminate truth maker? Ross Cameron has some ideas.

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The Problem of Consciousness meets "Intelligent Design"

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David Chalmers explains why he thinks his arguments against materialism based on the problem of consciousness would not support anti-Darwinism or some version of the intelligent design hypothesis.

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Hell and Vagueness - Sider

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A fun paper by Ted Sider arguing, from vagueness, that a certain conception of Hell is inconsistent with attributes that God is traditionally thought to have.

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Compositional Universalism and Monotheism

http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com

Fun puzzle for a monotheist that embraces unrestricted composition.

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On Saving non-Persons

http://prosblogion.ektopos.com

Interesting argument for the conclusion that persons do not have greater moral standing than non-persons.

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What is a Constellation?

http://tar.weatherson.org

Fun post about how to analyze concepts like 'constellation' and 'star' - BONUS: links to a guide that will help you spot the International Space Station.

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A Problem of The Many

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Alexander Pruss argues what he thinks is the most plausible version of universalism raises a problem of the many. He goes on to suggest that this may have implications for psychological theories of personal identity.

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How Are You Celebrating "Metaphysical Awareness Month"?

http://leiterreports.typepad.com

Comments = Hilarious.

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Truth and Ontology (Author Meets Critics)

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Philosophical Books has put together what promises to be a good Symposium of Merrick's new book.

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Tropes, Truthmakers, and Alien Properties

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An interesting brief argument that truthmaker-theorists are committed to believing in alien properties.

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TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN: REGRESS, PRIORITY AND FUNDAMENTALITY

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk

I address an intuition commonly endorsed by metaphysicians, that there must be a fundamental layer
of reality, i.e., that chains of ontological dependence must terminate: there cannot be turtles all the
way down. I discuss applications of this intuition with reference to Bradley’s regress, composition,
realism about the mental and the cosmological argument. I discuss some arguments for the intui-
tion, but argue that they are unconvincing.

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realism and reduction: the quest for robustness

http://quod.lib.umich.edu

Nice paper by Mark Schroeder on reductive naturalism in metaethics (amongst other things).

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Against (Armchair) Metaphysics

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Controversial discussion about the role of armchair theorizing and conceptual analysis in metaphysics in particular and philosophy in general.

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On Linking Dispositions and Conditionals

http://mind.oxfordjournals.org

This is a paper by David Manley and Ryan Wasserman discussing problems with analyzing dispositions in terms of conditional statements, and then offering an analysis that avoids these problems. This article seems to be a good introduction to (at least this area of) work on dispositions.

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A Defense of Presentism

http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu

Ned Markosian defends presentism from some of the main objections. It's also a nice clear summary of the debates surrounding eternalism and presentism.

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