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Zach Blaesi

University of Texas at Austin
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University of Texas at Austin
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2021
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Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Formulating Physicalism
Grounding
Dualism about Consciousness
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics
Philosophy of Film
Meta-Ethics
Philosophy of Language
Epistemology
Philosophy of Action
Global Metaphysical Theories, Misc
Grounding
Reasons, Misc
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    The moral parody argument against panpsychism
    Philosophical Studies 179 (6): 1821-1852. 2021.
    I exploit parallel considerations in the philosophy of mind and metaethics to argue that the reasoning employed in an important argument for panpsychism overgeneralizes to support an analogous position in metaethics: panmoralism. Next, I raise a number of problems for panmoralism and thereby build a case for taking the metaethical parallel to be a reductio ad absurdum of the argument for panpsychism. Finally, I contrast panmoralism with a position recently defended by Einar Duenger Bohn and argu…Read more
    I exploit parallel considerations in the philosophy of mind and metaethics to argue that the reasoning employed in an important argument for panpsychism overgeneralizes to support an analogous position in metaethics: panmoralism. Next, I raise a number of problems for panmoralism and thereby build a case for taking the metaethical parallel to be a reductio ad absurdum of the argument for panpsychism. Finally, I contrast panmoralism with a position recently defended by Einar Duenger Bohn and argue that the two suffer from similar problems. I conclude by drawing some general lessons for panpsychism.
    PanpsychismResurrectionThe Is/Ought GapPhysicalism about the MindMoral NonnaturalismPsychophysical E…Read more
    PanpsychismResurrectionThe Is/Ought GapPhysicalism about the MindMoral NonnaturalismPsychophysical EmergenceThe Knowledge ArgumentMoral RealismMoral NaturalismDualism
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