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522Stroud, Hegel, Heidegger: A Transcendental ArgumentInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism. 2018._ Source: _Page Count 25 This is a pre-print. Please cite only the revised published version. This paper presents an original, ambitious, truth-directed transcendental argument for the existence of an ‘external world’. It begins with a double-headed starting-point: Stroud’s own remarks on the necessary conditions of language in general, and Hegel’s critique of the “fear of error.” The paper argues that the sceptical challenge requires a particular critical concept of thought as that which may di…Read more
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357Powers, Double Prevention and Mental CausationMetaphysica 17 (1): 37-42. 2016.S. C. Gibb holds that some mental events enable physical events to take place by acting as ‘double preventers’ which prevent other mental events from effecting change in the physical domain. She argues that this enables a dualist account of psychophysical interaction consistent with the causal relevance of mental events, their distinctness from physical events, the causal closure of the physical and the exclusion of systematic overdetermination. While accepting the causal powers metaphysic, this…Read more
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391Empiricism and the Bounds of sensePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 43 (3): 401-405. 1983.
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506Emergence from What? A Transcendental Understanding of the Place of ConsciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 21 (5-6): 10-32. 2014.This paper argues that the standard formulations of the question of how consciousness emerges, both synchronically and diachronically, from the physical world necessarily use a concept of the physical without either a clear grasp of the concept or an understanding of the necessary conditions of its possibility. This concept will be elucidated and some of the necessary conditions of its possibility explored, clarifying the place of the mental and the physical as abstractions from the totality of …Read more
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1155Phenomenological Inquiry and Philosophical Self-ReflectionJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10 (3): 172-183. 1979.
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