2 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2016-2019
Rivista di Estetica January 30, 2019 Alfredo Paternoster
As I define it, metaphysical naturalism (in the philosophy of mind) is the thesis according to which mental facts supervene in strong sense on neurophysiological states, i.e., the former can be deduced from the latter. In this paper I discuss this thesis by taking into consideration two different kinds of mental states: I shall argue that, while metaphysical naturalism is false for standard...
Phenomenology and Mind November 26, 2016 Michele Di Francesco, Massimo Marraffa, Alfredo Paternoster 4 citations
The current philosophical discussion on the self and consciousness is characterized by a contrast or dilemma between the no-self (eliminativist) perspective, on the one hand, and the arguably naïve account that takes the self as a robust entity, on the other.in order to solve the dilemma, in this paper we suggest restoring a robust theory of the subject based on a bottom-up approach (fully...