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119The Functional Mapping HypothesisTopoi 36 (1): 107-118. 2017.Dissociation thought experiments like Zombie and Inverted Spectrum cases play an essential role in the qualia debate. Critics have long since argued that these cases raise serious epistemic issues, undermining first person access to phenomenal states also in normal subjects. Proponents have denied this because, due to their phenomenal experience, normal subjects have epistemic abilities that Zombies don’t have. Here I will present a modified version of these thought experiments: Part-time Zombie…Read more
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3InhaltIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 5-6. 1994.
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13Revision der Moderne Th. W. Adorno und Jean-François LyotardDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (11): 1266-1278. 1991.
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22Keine wissenschaftliche Debatte ist in den letzten Jahren mit soviel Vehemenz in der Öffentlichkeit ausgetragen worden, wie der Streit um die Willensfreiheit. Der traditionelle Begriff von "Willensfreiheit", der auch dem deutschen Strafrecht und seinem Schuldbegriff zugrundeliegt, setzt voraus, daß Menschen jenseits aller psychologischen und neurobiologischen Determinanten entscheiden und handeln können. Eine solche Konzeption von Willensfreiheit ist weder begrifflich-philosophisch noch empirisc…Read more
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40Neuroökonomie – Grundlagen und GrenzenAnalyse & Kritik 29 (1): 24-37. 2007.According to a widespread view, neuroscientific basic research tells us more about the essence of the mind than psychology and may, in the long run, even replace those higher level approaches. Contrary to this view, it is demonstrated that many features can only be observed and explained on a certain level of complexity. This is particularly obvious in the case of neuromarketing and neuroeconomics. In both cases, neuroscientific methods depend on behavioral paradigms. Still, neuroscientific rese…Read more
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2EinleitungIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 7-18. 1994.
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2Avantgarde und OkkultismusIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 95-117. 1994.
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77L'autodétermination. Libre arbitre, Responsabilité et DéterminismeSynthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 455-475. 2007.L’analyse de la conception commune de la liberté produit deux « critères minimaux » : 1) L’autonomie distingue la liberté de la contrainte ; 2) La responsabilité distingue la liberté du hasard. Interpréter la liberté comme « autodétermination » correspond aux deux critères. L’autodétermination se comprend comme une détermination par les « préférences personnelles », constitutives de la personne. La liberté et le déterminisme sont ainsi compatibles. La question essentielle n’est pas de savoir si …Read more
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80Is there an empirical answer to the explanatory gap argument?Consciousness and Cognition 7 (2): 202-205. 1998.
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82Self-Determination. Free Will, Responsibility, and DeterminismSynthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 455-475. 2007.An analysis of our commonsense concept of freedom yields two “minimal criteria”: Autonomy distinguishes freedom from compulsion; Authorship distinguishes freedom from chance. Translating freedom into “self-determination” can account for both criteria. Self-determination is understood as determination by “personal-preferences” which are constitutive for a person. Freedom and determinism are therefore compatible; the crucial question is not whether an action is determined at all but, rather, wheth…Read more
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3Hermetikrezeption in der RenaissanceIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 52-64. 1994.
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85Painless pain: Property dualism and the causal role of phenomenal consciousnessAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1): 51-64. 2000.
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2FazitIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 405-412. 1994.
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5Metaphysischer PessimismusIn Pessimismus: Geschichtsphilosophie, Metaphysik Und Moderne von Nietzsche Bis Spengler, De Gruyter. pp. 103-143. 1997.
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5Dithyrambiker des Untergangs Gnosis und die Ästhetik der ModerneDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 40 (8): 937-961. 1992.
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7Im Schatten des Schönen: die Ästhetik des Hässlichen in historischen Ansätzen und aktuellen Debatten (edited book)Aisthesis Verlag. 2006.
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6Konservative EntwürfeIn Pessimismus: Geschichtsphilosophie, Metaphysik Und Moderne von Nietzsche Bis Spengler, De Gruyter. pp. 173-210. 1997.
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186The Second-Person PerspectiveInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (1). 2012.Abstract The rise of social neuroscience has brought the second-person perspective back into the focus of philosophy. Although this is not a new topic, it is certainly less well understood than the first-person and third-person perspectives, and it is even unclear whether it can be reduced to one of these perspectives. The present paper argues that no such reduction is possible because the second-person perspective provides a unique kind of access to certain facts, namely other persons' mental s…Read more
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2IndexIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 442-448. 1994.
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1SchlußbemerkungIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 449-452. 1994.
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15Freiheit und Verantwortung. Wille, Determinismus und der Begriff der PersonAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 26 (1): 23-44. 2001.
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5PessimismusdebatteIn Pessimismus: Geschichtsphilosophie, Metaphysik Und Moderne von Nietzsche Bis Spengler, De Gruyter. pp. 154-162. 1997.
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6›Entzückungen am Herdfeuer des Seynsc‹: Martin HeideggerIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 255-336. 1994.
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28Contentsintroductionmorality in times of naturalising the mind – an overviewpart I: Free will, responsibility and the naturalised mind1. Naturalizing free will – empirical and conceptual issues2. Libet’s experiments and the possibility of free conscious decision3. The effectiveness of intentions – a critique of wegnerpart II: Naturalising ethics? – Metaethical perspectives4. Neuroethics and the rationalism/sentimentalism divide5. Experimental ethics – a critical analysispart III: Naturalised ethics? Empirical perspectives6. Moral soulfulness & moral hypocrisy – is scientific study of moral agency relevant to ethical reflection?Part IV: Neuroethics – which values?7. The rationale behind surgery –truth, facts, valuesbiographical notes on the authorsname index (review)In Morality in Times of Naturalising the Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 45-62. 2014.
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7Mythen des Materialismus Die Eliminationstheorie und das Problem der psychophysischen IdentitätDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44 (1): 77-100. 1996.
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56Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityLexington Books. 2013.Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications
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174Is type identity incompatible with multiple realization?Grazer Philosophische Studien 65 (1): 37-49. 2002.It is commonly believed that there is a fundamental incompatibility between multiple realization and type identity in the philosophy of mind. This claim can be challenged, however, since a single neural type may be realized by different microphysical types. In this case, the identity statement would connect the psychological and the neural type, while the neural type, in turn, could be multiply realized by different microphysical types. Such a multiple realization of higher level types occurs qu…Read more
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12Schopenhauer und die FolgenIn Dithyrambiker des Untergangs: Gnostizismus in Ästhetik Und Philosophie der Moderne, Akademie Verlag. pp. 65-94. 1994.
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