the mit press consciousness and persons unity and identity nov 2003

... kinds of consciousness or unity. But it will be useful to 14 Introduction Figure I.1 Figure I.2 Consciousness and Persons Unity and Identity Michael Tye Consciousness and Persons Unity and Identity Michael ... Tye In Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity Michael Tye takes on the thorny issue of the unity of conscious- ness and answers the...

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... anything. There is a state that zombies go into when they cut themselves or stub their toes. This state makes them do the things we do when we are in pain. They curse and jump up and down and hold the ... of the various things going on there. I have the sensation of pain. The question is not whether their visual sensations and my pain sensation are sensations of the same t...

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... toexistbecauseofsome cognitivelimitationonourpart(McGinn1989)—wearetoostupid(orhavethewrongtypeofintelligence)to appreciatetheexplanatoryconnection.Aproperunderstandingofthephysicalandphenomenalfactswould,in reality,showusthatoneexplainstheother. Idonotbelieveanyofthesethreestrategiesareacceptable.Thefirstsimplyflatlyconflictswiththeevidence.Its proponentsneedtoproducemuchstrongerargumentstha...

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... of reason of the sort that Plato and Descartes sought, and even if there were, they would be too trivial to provide a basis for all the other things we think we know. Similarly, there are no ... activation of all the units in parallel. The updated activation of unit is calculated on the basis of its current activation, the weights on links to other units, and the activatio...

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... cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prarie-dog, The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats, The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings, I see in them and myself ... of knowledge and can also account for other gross moral psychological phenomena, giving them ample explanatory power and making them the centerpiece of moral cognition....

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... individuation, and (presumably) the utter- ances and thoughts that implement these conventions. Our making these utterances and having these thoughts create in us the impression that there are in the world ... at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, one microparticle in the star Sirius, and the entirety of the Navy’s latest Ohio-class submarine. Neither folk the- ories...

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... method and focus, and even about the status and existence of self, they are in nearly unanimous agreement when it comes to the relation between consciousness and self -consciousness. Literally all the ... and other, I will argue here that the theory-theory of mind is mistaken when it claims that theoretical knowledge constitutes the core of what we call upon when we unde...

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... universalism: The domain of the exercise of fairness is all people everywhere taken together, and the device of the original position is applied to a hypothetical exercise in the selection of rules and ... identification of the agencies charged with meeting these demands are influenced by the choice of the appropriate concep- tion of the original position and the corre...

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... water(1), and this triggers the Second Limitation Princi- ple. 10 The early version of the Second Limitation Principle has the desired result, but in other respects it is far from satisfactory. The ... knowledge, the transmission of epistemic warrant, question-begging reasoning, the semantics of natural-kind terms, and other issues crucial to epistemology and philosophy of...

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... keep them at the bottom of the sea, and to protect them when drifted by the tide against rocks. Animals of the molluscous division, which inhabit the deep sea, and float singly, or in groups, as the ... 12:19 Organisms and Artifacts Design in Nature and Elsewhere Tim Lewens A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Lewens-79044 book Octobe...

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